Software Developer Senior Specialist, North Asia

NASDAQ OMX is a premier international company, offering an exciting opportunity to work in a faced paced and challenging environment that requires high energy, flexibility, customer appreciation and the ability to improve products and services within our business.

The North Asia and Japan Solution Team is a dedicated cross functional team consisting of Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Project Managers, and Technical Account Managers working cohesively as a unit, to ensure the successful delivery of Project, Enhancement and Support deliveries to our customers in the region. Consequently the role will also include a level of customer interaction. As a Software Developer you will be integrally involved in meeting our challenge to develop robust high quality software, with ever increasing performance requirements and simultaneously contribute to improve agility and time to market in a changing business and regulatory environment. In addition, a successful candidate will need to have the mindset and capability to take on a broad responsibility for several parts of the Trading system.

You will work with highly motivated and skilled colleagues in an international and dynamic environment. This position is a fantastic opportunity to develop your technical and interpersonal skills, while gaining an extensive knowledge of the exchange industry.

Role Description
? Review system requirements and design solutions to meet requirements
? Code and unit test to provide high quality software
? Improve performance or enhance product usability
? Take responsibility for many parts of the Trading system
? Programming in a Java/Linux environment, C and C++ development
? Database analysis and design
? Software trouble shooting and bug fixing
? Global environment, working closely with the customers, Business Analysts and Testers to support the design of new and existing functionality
? Challenging the team to increase efficiency wherever possible

Qualifications
? Master of Science degree in computer science or similar level of education
? 8+ years of experience of software development
? Excellent and proven Java and C/C++ software development skills
? Software development and design experience from distributed high performance systems
? Database knowledge (preferably Oracle or PostgresSQL)
? Fluent in written and spoken English
? Prior experience in trading system development is qualifying but not a prerequisite
? Good understanding of financial markets is qualifying but not a prerequisite

To suit this position you will have strong communication skills and demonstrate customer focus. You will have the ability to work effectively in a team and individually. You must be quality focused and forward thinking. We anticipate that you are persistent in solving complex problems and have an analytical and result-oriented approach.

You will need to be ?hands on? in your approach, be pro-active, demonstrate initiative and enjoy a fast pace working environment. Furthermore, you will be goal orientated, committed and highly motivated.

We offer you an international and dynamic working environment, for a globally recognized company, within a supportive and professional team. NASDAQ OMX is an opportunity to grow professionally and intellectually while working at the forefront of finance and technology.

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