Lead eSoftware engineer, Java, Algo Trading, Equities Technologies Team

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As a Lead eSoftware Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Electronic Trading Technology team, 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

• Develops, implement, support and maintain a growing benchmark algorithmic trading platform of Asian markets

• Contributes significantly to the front office trading team in terms of pre and post-trade analysis and the design of the algorithmic trading strategies. 

• Designs and build the algorithmic trading strategies and trading platform for multiple business silos while guarantee the robustness of our highly resiliency trading platform. 

• Executes 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

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

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

• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other related disciplines

• 5 or more years of software engineering experience. Mastery in Java with respect to designing, coding, testing , and software delivery

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• In-depth knowledge and proficiency in Java programming

• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

• Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.)

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems, and equities trading system.

• Hands-on experience in algorithmic strategy development

• Practical cloud native experience