Front Office eTrading Developer - Director

Profile Summary

As an eTrading developer the job holder will be primarily be working on extending and supporting the electronic trading systems associated with Rates Derivates and Cash (Rates & Credit) desks, through a mixture of individual and team-based tasks from small enhancements through to large scale implementations. 

The eTrading team are a small, highly technical group responsible for functionality encompassing:

• Sourcing market data from external vendors eg. BPipe and ION
• Pricing of vanilla and custom IRS/Cash products (often using in-house and vendor analytics)
• Contribution publication to B2C venues eg. Bloomberg and Tradeweb
• Automated handling of client enquiries including auto responses
• Intraday Realtime Risk (IRS)
• Ensuring limits and risk controls are enforced
• Providing valuations to downstream systems
• Maintenance and enhancement of tick data capture

The job holder will possess excellent technical problem solving skills (predominantly in JAVA), ability to adapt to new technologies quickly, able to clearly communicate technical and non-technical topics and a keen interest in learning our business while working alongside IT teams, Front Office traders, sales and research.

Duties and Responsibilities

Technical Development & Architecture:

• Design, develop, and maintain real-time bond trading systems supporting front office operations
• Implement low-latency solutions for market data processing and order management
• Develop APIs and integration layers with upstream/downstream systems including Bloomberg, Reuters, and internal platforms
• Ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance to handle high-volume trading activities

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Lead technical initiatives and mentor junior developers in best practices and domain knowledge
• Collaborate directly with traders, quants, and portfolio managers to understand requirements and deliver solutions
• Drive architectural decisions and technology strategy for bond trading platforms
• Coordinate with risk management, compliance, and operations teams to ensure regulatory compliance
• Participate in production support rotation and handle critical trading system issues

Business & Product Development:

• Translate complex business requirements into technical specifications and implementation plans
• Stay current with market structure changes, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices
• Contribute to product roadmap and strategic technology initiatives
• Provide technical expertise during client meetings and RFP responses

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least 4 years in capital markets or financial services
• Strong expertise in fixed income products, particularly bonds, treasuries, corporate bonds, and derivatives
• Proven experience working in front office environments, directly supporting trading desks
• Expert-level proficiency in Java, C++, or C# for high-performance system development
• Experience with distributed systems, messaging middleware (Kafka, Solace, TIBCO), and microservices architecture
• Understanding of FIX protocol and experience with order management systems
• Demonstrated leadership experience including mentoring, technical design leadership, or team lead roles

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or quantitative discipline
• Experience with Python for data analysis, automation, and quantitative modeling
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with machine learning applications in trading and risk management
• Experience with electronic trading platforms and algorithmic trading systems
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks

What Mizuho Can Offer You

Here at Mizuho, there are fantastic progression opportunities and clear paths to promotion. We will give you ample opportunity to affect change and to help grow our business.

In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:

• Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus
• Non-contributory pension
• 27 days’ annual leave
• Core working hours*
• Hybrid working - office and home based*
• Virtual GP
• Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders

*For applicable roles only

At Mizuho, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs. We are committed to supporting equality and diversity, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities

If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@mizuhoemea.com and we will be happy to help.