Senior Lead Software Engineer - Equities Algo Trading - Java - VP

Overview

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization, 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop algo trading strategies and execution platform
• Design and develop simulation environment and maintain automated testing of strategies and their responses to staged market conditions
• Enhance existing strategies to improve performance by reviewing analytics and evolving models/signals
• Support the desk by deep-diving into specific cases to interpret strategy behavior and address issues
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodologies
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience in Java
• Proficiency in low latency, real-time, scalable trading systems
• Experience in building/dealing with high throughput messaging APIs, middleware products
• Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across NA, EMEA, APAC) while influencing and contributing towards the development of the global platform
• Experience with algorithmic trading, including systematic trading
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience with FIX, Market Data, Analytics and OMS
• Market microstructure knowledge
• Equities, FX, options, derivatives asset class knowledge
• Jupyter/Pandas, KDB+/Q, Python, shell scripting

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. We make accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

About The Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. The team provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development