Job Description
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
- Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
- Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
- Experience in a financial service environment with a focus in front-office applications.
- Good experience in portfolio optimizer related maths especially mixed integer programming (MIP), Quadratic programming concepts.
- Strong JAVA/Python/R/Matlab programming experience is required
- Good understanding in data persistence (SQL or noSQL) data paradigms
- Prior experience developing middleware (MQ, data caching) and core java is required
- Agile development experience or equivalent in fast-paced development environment
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in using mathematical solver like Gurobi and/or building Portfolio Construction platform using optimizers such as – Barra/ITG /CPLEX optimizers would be a major PLUS.
- Solid financial engineering background is desirable. CFA, FRM, MBA in Finance and/or Financial Engineering degree and/or risk management knowledge is a major plus
- Experience in front-office capital markets/investment management applications desired
