Lead Software Engineer - Equities Electronic Trading

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Equities Electronic Trading Technology Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Identify opportunities to eliminate toil or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
• Understand the requirements and challenges facing our developers from CI/CD perspective
• Develops secure high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes‑oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts, computer science, computer engineering and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Have excellent knowledge of at least one mainstream software development language i.e. :
  Java / C++ / Python / GO / Kotlin / Type Script / C#, etc.
• Hands on experience with Fin Ops
• Experience with AI
• Proficiency in low latency, real‑time, scalable trading systems, and familiarity with algorithmic trading, including systematic trading
• Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across NA, EMEA, APAC) while influencing and contributing to the buildout of Equities technology org
• Have overall understanding of 'what's the proper way of building efficient software' - and the implications of circumventing the guardrails which are in place.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Familiar with CI/CD and understand what, why, where, how, when it comes to using one of the following i.e., Jenkins, Team City, etc.
• Knowledge around building/dealing with high throughput messaging APIs, middleware products

• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Be curious about the next generation of modern engineering tools, processes and practices

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.

These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage,…