Lead Software Engineer, Java, Equities Technology

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible. A Lead Full Stack Engineer is required to drive the development of the next generation of features for an Equities front office risk and aggregation platform. We have an exciting opportunity within an agile development team working on a best-in-class pre-trade and risk aggregation platform for an Equities front office market making desk. You will collaborate with skilled engineers across global teams and gain experience with the complete risk management lifecycle for an Equities front office desk.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase Equities Trading Business you serve as a Lead Engineer on our agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way. You will partner with Product Owners Trading and Quantitative Research to bring their vision of the next set of critical business functions into reality.

Job responsibilities

• Own the delivery of value-add activities as part of a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.
• Enhance and develop new features for risk aggregation and hedging leveraging React and Java
• Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing platform framework SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
• Collaborate with other frontend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of re-suable components to facilitate faster development.
• Closely collaborate with a number of teams including Trading Sales and Quantitative Research UX as well as other technology teams.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Mathematics or other related disciplines
• 8 or more years of software engineering experience. Mastery in Java with respect to designing coding testing and software delivery
• Commercial experience working with React and Java
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services using RESTful
• Knowledge of the web technologies (Sass/CSS/HTML/Javascript/Typescript/NodeJS ecosystem and bundling tooling)
• Knowledge of server side technologies (Spring/Spring boot messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ Kafka maven/gradle junit mocking frameworks)
• Experience in developing debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
• Expertise in Databases relational and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling heap dump analysis thread dump analysis and GC tuning within a commercial setting
• Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins) Application Resiliency and Security

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Exposure to frontend libraries such as ag-grid highcharts state management such as redux
• Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
• Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum sprint planning retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.