Java Developer (Associate)

Innovation Hub Overview

Jefferies is creating a Technology Innovation Hub in Pune, a greenfield opportunity to build the systems that power global markets. As our first India technology center, this hub brings together hands on builders who engineer the platforms behind Jefferies’ growth across capital markets, investment banking, and institutional securities. We’re scaling toward an elite team of 500 engineers while maintaining the agility, ownership, and meritocratic spirit that defines Jefferies. From cloud and data to AI, risk, and core business technologies, teams in Pune will lead high impact work with a global mandate.

IT Equities Technology

Jefferies’ Equities Technology team builds and runs global, real-time trading and risk platforms across the full equities product spectrum—cash equities, portfolio/algo trading, central risk books, listed & OTC derivatives, convertibles, swaps, and ETF/basket trading. The team supports front-office workflows end-to-end, including order management, quantitative trading, real-time position and risk, AI/ML analytics, trade lifecycle processing, and regulatory/customer reporting.

Operating in a 24x7 follow-the-sun model across major trading hubs, the India Technology Innovation Hub will be a core engineering center working closely with New York, London, Hong Kong, and other regions to build and enhance high-performance, scalable systems using technologies such as Python, Java, C++/C#, cloud, modern visualization, low-latency messaging, and in-memory data stores.

About the Role

Jefferies’ Equities – Prime Services Technology team is seeking a technically strong and motivated Java Developer to join the Securities Finance technology group in Pune. This role will focus on the design, development, enhancement, and support of strategic trading and servicing systems used by a global Securities Finance user base. You will collaborate closely with cross-regional technology teams in Hong Kong, London, and New York to build foundational and functional components of the Securities Finance product suite.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance applications and services using Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot preferred).
• Design, build, test, deploy, and support core Securities Finance components with a focus on scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Contribute to building distributed systems and enterprise-grade services (APIs, messaging, batch/stream processing as applicable).
• Work with global teams to deliver features, fixes, and platform improvements across time zones.
• Participate in code reviews, unit/integration testing, and release activities.
• Diagnose production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable fixes.
Continuously improve architecture, engineering practices, automation, and observability.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on development experience with Core Java and Spring frameworks.
• Experience delivering distributed systems and enterprise-grade applications in production.
• Strong knowledge of SQL; experience with Redis and Kafka.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, and SNS.
• Experience with SDLC and tooling including Jira, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.
Familiarity with AI-assisted development; proficiency using GitHub Copilot to improve productivity and code quality.

Preferred Qualifications (Good to have)

• Experience with Python development.
• Familiarity with Airflow, Snowflake, and AWS QuickSight.
• Exposure to financial services, Securities Finance, Prime Services, or trading systems.
  
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