Senior Lead Software Engineer - Front Office Trading

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Corporate Sector

Senior Lead Software Engineer role focused on building and supporting a mission-critical trade execution platform for JPMorgan Chase's Front Office Trading. The role involves full software development lifecycle, collaboration with business users, and leveraging technologies like Python/Java, Kafka, AWS, Databricks, and SQL/NoSQL.

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. Manages responsibility for supporting the day-to-day operations of the trade execution platform, collaborating with Middle Office and Front Office business users.
  4. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  5. Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Strong hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language and proficient in coding in one or more languages and frameworks such as Python, Pandas, Django or Java, Spring, MQ/Kafka
  • Experience with AWS & Databricks ecosystem technology stacks as EMR, redshift, Dynamo DB, Athena, S3, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark etc.
  • Experience with SQL and No-Sql Databases such as Oracle, MS Sql, PostgreSQL, Graph DB, Dynamo DB etc.
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Practical cloud native experience and hands on experience in Cloud platforms like Kubernetes / Cloud Foundry
  • Project execution experience with Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with non-technical colleagues to understand and address business needs

Nice to have

  • Strong stakeholder management and the ability to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Familiarity with investment banking products - fixed income, derivatives
  • Prior experience supporting trade execution platforms
  • Hands-on experience with GenAI Developer Tooling