Lead II - Software Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. UST scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Core Java, Real-Time Pricing &
Location: Trivandrum, India
Company: UST
Domain: Financial Services / Capital Markets
Experience: 7+ years
UST is a global digital transformation solutions company. This position is with UST, supporting a client project for one of the largest financial institutions in Canada.
The Transparency Team is a Front Office development team responsible for building cross-asset automated pricing and risk systems, primarily focused on FICC derivatives. The team works directly with global sales, trading, and quant teams to develop applications incorporating pricing and risk models used for electronic trading.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the core pricing/risk services development team in Trivandrum. The role has a strong emphasis on Core Java, multithreading, high-throughput streaming, and low-latency system development, with practical full-stack exposure to JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Python 3+
- JavaScript / TypeScript / React
- Solace / Kafka messaging
- Hazelcast for caching and distributed computing
- ZeroMQ / WebSocket for remote socket communication
- Google Protocol Buffers / JSON / SBE for serialization
- Graphite / Grafana / Dynatrace for observability
- RHEL Linux 8+
- Experience developing high-performance real-time streaming systems using a variety of protocols
- Strong knowledge of pricing/risk for FICC derivatives
- Swaps
- Forwards
- Options
- Experience optimizing trade-offs between throughput and latency in system design
- Ability to plan, evaluate, recommend, design, operationalize, and support solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry regulatory requirements for G-SIB
- Ability to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously
Performance &
This is a highly data-intensive environment with performance requirements of approximately 10-100K messages per second per thread and sub-millisecond latency.
Core Java is the primary focus. Candidates are also expected to have practical knowledge of JavaScript, Web UI development, and real-time Web APIs to contribute effectively in a full-stack capacity. UI performance is considered part of the overall end-to-end solution performance.