Fast-track your software career with global finance projects
Every payment that settles, every trading platform that runs, every digital banking feature that works smoothly has someone in software engineering making it happen. That could be you.
Software engineering is where technical skill meets commercial impact. You'll learn how to build reliable applications, fix real issues in live systems, and use user feedback to make the platforms businesses run on better.
At FDM, up to 12 weeks of full-time training in our Skills Lab sets you up for a client project with one of Hong Kong's leading names in banking, finance, or investment. Your first assignment could see you building application features, improving system performance, fixing bugs in payment systems, or helping teams solve live technology challenges.
Start dates: rolling intake. Apply now.
Your first 12 weeks
You'll start with training in FDM's Skills Lab, building the technical foundations used by modern software engineering teams.
Get hands-on with object-oriented programming, Java, Spring Boot, React, Python, JavaScript, Git, SQL, cloud platforms, AI integrations, and more. You'll learn how software is designed, built, tested, improved, and supported in real business environments.
By the time you step onto your first client assignment, you'll have practical skills employers ask for, and the confidence to use them on real project work.
After training
We match you to a client opportunity that fits your strengths, your interests, and where you want your career to head.
You'll join a client team, contribute to live work, and keep learning on the job. Your experience could build across application development, production support, testing, business analysis, or software delivery.
Roles you could move into include:
- Software Engineer. Design, build, and maintain software systems that are reliable, scalable, and built to perform.
- Web Developer. Create user-focused websites and applications across front-end and back-end development.
- Production Support Analyst. Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve application or system issues so critical platforms keep running.
- Technical Business Analyst. Work between business and technology teams to understand requirements, shape solutions, and support delivery.
- Automation Tester. Build and run automated test scripts to help keep software reliable, secure, and working as expected.
Where it leads: as you build experience on client projects, the path opens up into more senior technical roles across software engineering, application development, automation testing, and business-facing technology.
"My work spans building APIs and microservices, designing user interfaces, and setting up automation pipelines and production deployments."—Kevin Daryl, Full-Stack Developer at a leading capital markets and investment group
Why join FDM
- A competitive salary and full-time employment from day one
- Up to 12 weeks of hands-on training in FDM’s Skills Lab before your first client project
- A clear route from training into commercial software engineering experience
- Project work with major global organisations in banking, finance, and investment
- Hands-on exposure to the tools, teams, and environments used by leading technology employers
- Ongoing coaching throughout your career journey
- Support from mentors, coaches, and a wider consultant community
- Social events to help you build a network and feel part of an international team