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 Asset and Wealth Management, 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.
Job responsibilities
- Designing and building our next-generation Trading platform.
- Implementing asynchronous Java code to handle real-time data processing.
- Building and maintaining pipelines for efficient data processing and integration with external systems and APIs using Java technologies.
- Interfacing with external vendors providing FIX connectivity to all brokers, ECNs, and liquidity providers like Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, etc.
- Working with other technologists, traders, and quants to deliver business solutions.
- Collaborating with the trading team to analyze datasets and develop data-driven applications using core Java programming.
- Staying updated on the latest Java libraries and open-source tools relevant to trading and finance.
- Contributing to the development of trading algorithms and strategies, leveraging statistical and mathematical principles where applicable, with a focus on Java implementation.
- Taking ownership of projects from inception to completion, with a focus on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions using Java.
- Applying quantitative and ML techniques to data analysis.
- Managing the full Software Delivery Lifecycle including coding, testing, deployment, and support, in a DevOps environment.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Have excellent programming experience in Core Java
- Practice TDD and BDD engineering techniques. Implementation of test-driven development
- Have an understanding of Java IOC frameworks such as Spring or Guice
- Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Solace or Ignite
- Above average database fundamentals – can write complex queries, understands how to organize data , able to troubleshoot for performance.
- Strong Application development background with Design Thinking. Passionate about working in Front Office Technology team.
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in trading technologies
- Kotlin knowledge is a plus
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Exposure to cloud technologies
