Lead Software Engineer - Devops Specialist - Electronic Trading Integration

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Software Engineer with a focus on DevOps and Electronic Trading Integration at JPMorgan Chase. The role involves enhancing, building, and delivering technology products, focusing on secure, stable, and scalable solutions. Responsibilities include software solutions design, development, troubleshooting, code review, automation of testing and workflows, and integration with trading systems. Requires strong knowledge of systems internals, networking, security, cloud platforms, and containerization. Experience in data engineering or software development, SDLC, agile methodologies, and the financial services industry is essential. Preferred qualifications include Investment Banking domain experience and knowledge of financial messaging protocols.

What you'd actually do

  1. Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  4. Automate testing processes and any manual workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy. Integrate with various trading front office, middle office and back office system.
  5. Demonstrate strong working knowledge of Windows and Linux systems internals, networking, and security concepts. Working experience with cloud platforms and containerization technologies.

Skills

Required

  • software engineering concepts
  • data engineering
  • software development
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • Python
  • Bash
  • automation
  • continuous delivery methods
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • cloud
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • mobile
  • financial services industry
  • IT systems
  • cloud native experience

Nice to have

  • Investment Banking Domain
  • Front Office Trading Applications
  • FIX Protocol
  • financial messaging protocols
  • automation/test automation
  • tools
  • C/C++/Java

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years applied experience
  • 12+ years in data engineering or software development roles
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems