Job Description

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.

Jefferies India is looking for a curious, motivated, and collaborative Developer to join the Equities Technology – Equity Derivatives team in Pune. The role will support key regional technology initiatives, with a focus on building, enhancing, and maintaining software systems used by the business.

The ideal candidate should have strong software development fundamentals, hands-on experience in Java, good knowledge of SQL, and a willingness to learn and contribute in a fast-paced financial technology environment. Exposure to C# would be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Work under the guidance of senior engineers to deliver business and technology initiatives.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Assist in troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving application issues.
• Implement new features and enhancements as per business and technical requirements.
• Contribute to technical documentation, internal knowledge bases, and development best practices.
• Participate in agile development activities including sprint planning, estimation, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, support teams, and business stakeholders to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java.
• Willingness to additionally work with C#; prior C# experience would be beneficial.
• Good understanding of SQL and relational database design.
• Experience with version control tools such as Git.
• Understanding of unit testing practices and writing testable code.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Eagerness to learn, improve, and work in a team-oriented environment.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to agile development environments.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms or CI/CD tools.
• Exposure to Investment Banking / Financial Services technology environments.
• Understanding of equity derivatives or capital markets domain would be an advantage.

Education

• Undergraduate degree or above, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

Technical Skills / Tech Stack

• Primary Language: Java
• Secondary / Good to Have: C#
• Database: SQL, relational databases
• Tools: Git, unit testing frameworks
• Methodology: Agile / Scrum
• Nice to Have: Cloud platforms, CI/CD tools
  
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Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.