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.

The successful candidate will join the CRB Execution Platform team and collaborate with quants, traders, and technologists to develop, implement, support, and maintain the systematic liquidity provision and execution platform for Central Risk Book desk. The work delivered in this role will have a direct impact on the business, and you will participate in all aspects of the trading platform. You will work closely with all stakeholders across the business.

Depending on your skills and interests, your responsibilities may include working on engine infrastructure, introducing and utilizing alpha signals, designing and building matching engines, optimizing performance, and improving the scalability and resiliency of the system.

Job responsibilities

• Design and develop execution and systematic liquidity provision platform

• Support the desk on the implementation of trading signals & liquidity provision strategies

• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodologies

• Maintain and support legacy systems

• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Drives decisions that influence the platforms design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

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 with Python

• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field