FX E-trading Java Senior Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase • Jersey City, NJ

70d

About The Position

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Technology Rates eTrading, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your role involves promoting significant business impact through your expertise and contributions, applying deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across multiple technologies and applications. You will be responsible for building components that support the global macro FX eTrading business, collaborating with a team of 20 developers worldwide, and working closely with our trading partners. These components must be highly available, scalable, and operate with minimal latency, handling high volumes of real-time data and requiring careful performance tuning. You will be accountable for the overall success of the systems, including their design, development, deployment, optimization, and day-to-day operation.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java
• Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, system design, threading implications, and strategies for optimizing performance-sensitive code
• Relevant Markets experience required
• Low latency middleware experience
• Ability to work collaboratively in a global team on long-term technical problems
• Possess a great attention to detail
• Ability to analyze and fix problems quickly
• Capable of working independently as well as part of a team. Able to learn quickly and apply new skills effectively
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice To Haves

• FX experience preferred
• Scripting skills, python will be an advantage

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Design, develop, and maintain electronic trading components
• Use low-level programming techniques to produce highly optimized, low-latency trading software
• Serve as a Second line support backing up the 1st line operate team
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree