Senior Java Developer - Global Investment Bank - Hong Kong

Our client, a global investment bank in Hong Kong, are seeking a Senior Java Developer to join their growing Equity Derivatives Technology desk. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting critical systems used by front-office teams. You will design, develop, and enhance software components across the derivatives lifecycle.

The role

• Develop and maintain backend services/components in Java supporting equity derivatives workflows.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, business analysts, and trading/risk stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Write clean, testable code; create and maintain unit/integration tests and automate where appropriate.
• Participate in design reviews, provide technical guidance to peers, and contribute to platform engineering practices.
• Support production change delivery (UAT, release readiness) and assist in incident/problem investigations as needed.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and resilience (e.g., caching, async processing, retry/backoff, graceful degradation).
• Follow engineering standards for security, auditability, and operational controls (logging, monitoring, traceability).

What you offer

• 7+ years of relevant professional software development experience.
• Strong programming experience in Java (core Java + modern frameworks) and Spring framework
• Knowledge of JavaScript also a big plus
• Solid knowledge of APIs, data structures, multithreading/concurrency, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Strong understanding of SQL and relational data modeling; working knowledge of caching/data-access patterns
• Experience in financial services or derivatives technology highly preferred
• Exposure to equity derivatives products (e.g., listed/unlisted options, variance swaps, equity futures options highly preferred

The sell

• Join a firm that is growing in the Greater China region, offering potential career development opportunities in the years to come
• Stable and collaborative environment