SW Specialist
Nasdaq · Posted Oct 22
Stock exchange, market technology, index, and financial compliance services
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About the role
The Nasdaq Pre Trade Risk (Nasdaq PTR) team builds products that let exchange members define, monitor and enforce risk limits on the trading activity of their trading participants, rejecting orders that exceed limits and notifying users when thresholds are crossed. The team programs large, distributed, low-latency and high-availability systems that run in customer data centers worldwide. This role is a senior Java/React developer position focused on designing and maintaining scalable applications for Nasdaq's market platform, collaborating with teams across countries, and mentoring a new and growing Bangalore-based team.
What you will do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable software applications for Nasdaq’s market platform.
- Write clean, well-tested code and conduct code reviews to ensure high-quality standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve software defects and performance bottlenecks.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes, engineering practices, and technical standards.
- Support the integration of platform components with internal and external systems.
- Work closely with architects and delivery leads across product teams to ensure seamless integration and collaboration between system components.
- Build and maintain automated tests to ensure product quality and reliability.
- Ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of the platform.
- Actively participate in incident analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution when issues arise.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Must have 6+ years of strong technical background with extensive experience in Java development.
- Excellent communication skills and a customer-focused mindset.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while supporting demanding users.
- Passion for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and mentoring junior team members.
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies, including EKS.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD practices and tooling.
- Experience working in Agile teams using Scrum, Kanban, or similar methodologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the Financial Field.
- Experience in developing low latency applications and have experience in writing GC-Free code.
- Experience in deploying systems both in the cloud and on prem.
- Experience with the Scrum Champion role.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Nasdaq
Nasdaq, Inc. is a leading global technology company serving corporate clients, investment managers, and market operators to navigate and digitize the modern financial ecosystem. It operates multiple market listing venues, indexes, and comprehensive financial crime management and market surveillance solutions.
- Industry
- Financial Exchanges
- Company size
- 9525 employees
- Founded
- 1971-02-08
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Sarah Youngwood
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Brad Peterson
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
John Zecca
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Legal, Risk and Regulatory Officer