Director of Software Engineering, C++, Equities Trading Technologies

If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact weve got an opportunity just for you.

As a Director of Software Engineeringat JPMorganChase within the Equities Trading Technologies you lead a technical area and drive impact within teams technologies and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of software applications technical processes and product management to drive multiple complex projects and initiatives while serving as a primary decision maker for your teams and be a driver of innovation and solution delivery.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design development and optimization of ultra-low-latency trading systems in C for equity derivatives market making across APAC exchanges
• Architect exchange connectivity solutions for Asian markets including FIX protocol and native binary exchange protocols
• Build and scale the Singapore engineering team establishing hiring pipelines and university partnerships to grow the team from ground up
• Define technology roadmap for trading systems expansion and drive strategic technical decisions across the region
• Partner with global engineering peers in Hong Kong New York and London to deliver cross-region platform capabilities
• Mentor and develop other engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with trading desks quantitative researchers and business stakeholders to translate trading requirements into technical solutions
• Champion firmwide frameworks tools and engineering best practices while driving adoption of modern development methodologies

Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Mathematics or other related disciplines
• 10 or more years of software engineering experience in engineering concepts with 15 years of applied experience including 10 years in trading systems
• Expert-level proficiency in C development (C14/17/20) with demonstrated experience building ultra-low-latency systems
• Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams including hiring mentoring and developing senior engineers
• Strong knowledge of low-latency optimization techniques
• Experience with exchange connectivity including FIX protocol binary exchange protocols TCP/UDP socket programming and multicast market data
• Expertise in designing building and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems with high-availability and automatic failover
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across global matrixed organizations and drive consensus among senior stakeholders
• Experience with configuration management build tools and continuous integration environments such as Jenkins

Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• Direct experience with Asian exchange protocols
• Knowledge of options Greeks market making strategies volatility trading and derivatives pricing
• Experience building market data feed handlers and order management systems for high-throughput latency-sensitive environments
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices