If you are a software engineering leader ready to take the reins and drive impact, we’ve got an opportunity just for you.
As a Director of Software Engineering at 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
- Bachelor’s 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 (C++14/17/20) 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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline
- 10+ years software engineering experience and 15+ years applied experience, including 10+ years in trading systems
- Expert-level proficiency in C++ development (C++14/17/20) with 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 and native binary exchange protocols
- TCP/UDP socket programming and multicast market data experience
- Expertise 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
- 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
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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