FX E-trading Java Senior Lead Software Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance build and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Technology Rates eTrading you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing building and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable manner. Your role involves promoting significant business impact through your expertise and contributions applying deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across multiple technologies and applications. You will be responsible for building components that support the global macro FX eTrading business collaborating with a team of 20 developers worldwide and working closely with our trading partners. These components must be highly available scalable and operate with minimal latency handling high volumes of real-time data and requiring careful performance tuning. You will be accountable for the overall success of the systems including their design development deployment optimization and day-to-day operation.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams contractors and vendors
• Design develop and maintain electronic trading components.
• Use low-level programming techniques to produce highly optimized low-latency trading software
• Serve as a Second line support backing up the 1st line operate team
• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design application functionality and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks tools and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity opportunity inclusion and respect

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java

• Will have a deep understanding of algorithms data structures system design threading implications and strategies for optimizing performance-sensitive code.

• Relevant Markets experience required.

• Low latency middleware
• Ability to work collaboratively in a global team on long-term technical problems
• Possess a great attention to detail
• Ability to analyze and fix problems quickly
• Capable of working independently as well as part of a team. Able to learn quickly and apply new skills effectively

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

• FX experience preferred
• Scripting skills python will be an advantage.