Lead Software Engineer - Java / Equities Risk

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank -  Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management 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. Drive the delivery of a best in class platform for real-time derivatives pricing, risk management, and streaming position aggregation for a range of complex financial products.

Job responsibilities

 

• Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
• Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
• Takes full ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
• Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
• Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, while ensuring they are robust and supportable
• Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
• Provides 3rd Level production support to analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system
• Mentors junior Java developers and conduct code and design reviews

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expertise in Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17
• Advanced hands-on coding experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring JPA/Hibernate, and REST based services
• Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning 
• Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs, analyze system performance using tools such as Dynatrace
• Experience with Databases – relational and No-SQL (Sybase, Oracle, Mongo DB)
• Expertise with Messaging Middleware platforms (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS
• Proven experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, and Maven
• Demonstrated experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
• Ability to work in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity and supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues

• Experience of working in financial services and understanding of equity derivative products
• Hands-on coding experience with Python
• Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3
• In-depth knowledge of AWS Public Cloud products and solutions (EC2, S3, Lambda, EFS)
• Cloud certification – AWS or Kubernetes