Sr Lead Software Engineer, Java, React, Kafka Equity Derivatives Sales & Trading Technology

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Technology division you will serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way. Specifically you will work on a global platform responsible for high low and zero-touch secondary quoting & trading for highly complex over-the-counter structured derivatives and securitised structured products.

Job responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders in Sales Trading QR Operations and others globally to ensure the Secondary platform meets business requirements.
• Directly contribute towards the ongoing efforts to re-engineer & re-architect the existing Secondary platform to make it performant truly highly available stable efficient and scalable.
• Lead the effort & contribute towards the identification and implementation of opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues with aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Executes software solutions design development and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Ability to solve complex problems and a track record of high performance and delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing globally distributed real-time systems using Java and
• Hands-on practical experience in system design application development testing and operational stability
• Experience in developing debugging and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Good overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies CI/CD Applicant Resiliency and Security.
• Familiar with Microservices architecture concepts and cloud-based technology preferably AWS.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience

• Experience of working in a front office environment within financial services
• Understanding of Equity Derivatives products.
• Experience of publish/subscribe messaging protocols e.g. AMQP RabbitMQ
• Exposure to Relational Database Management Systems (Sybase)
• Exposure to NoSQL systems (Cassandra MongoDB .etc.)
• Education to degree level ideally in a computer science mathematical or engineering discipline or equivalent