Sr Principal Esoftware Engineer - Emm Na Technical Lead

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · New York, NY +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Principal eSoftware Engineer - EMM NA Technical Lead at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on building and enhancing a global derivatives exchange connectivity platform. The role involves strong technical guidance, architectural decisions, cross-team collaboration, ensuring regulatory compliance, developing secure code, and influencing the adoption of new technologies within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Execution Technology team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide strong technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors. Your leadership will be crucial in making key architectural decisions, not only within the exchange layer but also within the wider trading stack.
  2. Form strong partnerships with other groups within derivatives, cash, and wider areas, mapping out opportunities for technology synergies. Your ability to influence and collaborate will be key to driving innovation and efficiency.
  3. Ensure that solutions are fully compliant with critical global regulatory reporting, surveillance, and control mandates as they evolve. Your leadership will ensure adherence to compliance standards and best practices.
  4. Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others. Your leadership will foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
  5. Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Your leadership will shape the future of technology within the organization.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 10+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical C++ experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Proficiency in C++ on Unix/Linux operating systems
  • Scripting skills to automate day-to-day development and testing tasks
  • Excellent understanding of software and hardware interaction
  • Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
  • Strong computer science fundamentals such as multithreading, object-oriented development
  • Ability to work closely with various teams including Application Development, Business Analyst & Operations

Nice to have

  • Experience in designing and developing low latency applications using C++ and C
  • Experience in configuring, testing, and integrating C++ applications into a Linux environment
  • Design, develop, test, and support various Market Access trading and risk management modules in C/C++
  • Working knowledge of FIX protocol
  • Experience in low latency connectivity to Futures and Options markets e.g., US Options Exchanges, CME, and ICE
  • Order management experience with Multileg products in Futures and Options products

What the JD emphasized

  • critical global regulatory reporting, surveillance, and control mandates