Software Development Manager - Derivatives

About the role

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to serve as the overall engineering leader for Derivatives. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role — responsible for driving the engineering architecture, technical direction, and delivery of derivatives capabilities across the platform.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable, resilient systems for derivatives trade capture, lifecycle event processing (resets, fixings, exercises, novations, terminations, amendments)
• Own architecture decisions for pricing and valuation services, including integration with pricing libraries/models and market data feeds for FX, IR, Credit, Equity
• Build and maintain data models and event-driven pipelines that support accurate position keeping, P&L, and risk reporting across the trade lifecycle
• Partner with quant and risk teams to translate valuation and pricing logic into robust, testable, production-grade code
• Drive engineering best practices: system design reviews, code quality, test automation, observability, and performance tuning for high-throughput, low-latency workflows

What you need

• 12–22 years in software engineering
• Capital markets
• System design
• Java
• Python
• Kafka
• Valuation
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Cash flow
• Reconciliation
• Data modelling
• Test automation