Lead Software Engineer - JAVA - Equities - Vice President

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 Equity Derivatives Group you will join our agile team creating, transforming, and supporting our trusted market-leading technology products using modern technologies and industry best practices. You will join and collaborate with a global team of technologists at all stages software development pipeline creating high quality software solutions in an environment that encourages curiosity and innovation, grows talent, and applies and sharpens your multi-faceted software engineering skillset.

With continuous learning, inclusivity, and developer experience a focus of our work culture you will work with closely with some of the best local and global software engineers, production management teams, traders, sales, Quants and product owners as well as find opportunities to enhance your skillset and interests by taking advantage of internal and external training opportunities, finding mentors, joining interest groups and communities, and learning from leaders at the firm and industry. Launch your career at JPMorgan as a software engineer for the Equity Derivatives Group joining a team tasked with creating and supporting innovative software solutions for our sales and trading platform that advance our industry-leading Equity Derivatives business, supporting our clients in a first-class way.

 

Job responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, traders, sales and Quants to develop best in class software solutions for our Equity Derivatives platform
• Work within a team of software engineers analyzing and implementing business requirements within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Work closely with production management applying technical knowledge to support business processes, changes, and end users
• Lead and contribute to communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
• Experience with Java/JVM and the Java/JVM ecosystem, Spring boot framework
• Experience of TypeScript/React development
• Experience with object-oriented design and micro-service architectures and best practices
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Good understanding of software design patterns and clean code practices
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience partnering with product and engineering teams

 

Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working on financial systems is a plus
• Experience with finance / derivative products. Knowledge of Convertible Bonds is a plus
• Experience of publish/subscribe messaging protocols such as Kafka , AMQP, AMPS
• Experience with C#/WPF  desktop application programming
• Exposure to Relational Database Management Systems (Sybase)
• Experience of Cloud technologies
• Exceptional client relationship skills including the ability to discover true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical approaches, drive efforts to meet committed timelines with optimal solutions