We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

• As a Lead Software Engineer
• KDB Developer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank
• Markets Technology Team, you will contribute to our “Market Data” and "Orders & Execution" KDB database, central to our Cash Equity business. This role is pivotal in managing vast historical and real-time data, driving decisions and strategies across financial and trading platforms. You will be working with a large user data set and will be providing service for mission critical trading applications. You'll be working within the Data Analytics team and you will be are responsible for applications that store large amounts of trading data using KDB technology for real-time and historical access.

Job responsibilities

• Write Q code, develop and maintain applications using our KDB technology stack.
• Doing core development and delivery of KDB based systems, including framework development.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others.
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology.
• Analyze, design and implement solutions for regular business enhancement requests and collaboration with global peers.
• Implement new compliance and regulatory guidelines for data systems.
• Planning, testing and automation of regular production releases of applications.
• Communicate with global stakeholders, handle regular user queries and L3 production support requests.
• Partner with the application support teams to maintain and support the platform.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Understanding of KDB technology and Q language and professional experience using KDB.
• Experience in the end-to-end development in the financial sector.
• Understanding of KDB+ tick design and data organization, performance implications of different approaches.
• Demonstrated ability in managing real-time application for high-stakes financial operations.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Able to make decisions in a fast-paced and pressurized environment.
• Strong work ethic and delivery focused.
• Strong communication skills
• Proficiency in dynamic teamwork, and goal-oriented environments

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with cloud environments and deployments.
• Experience with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience other languages e.g. Python/Java.