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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
The JPM Electronic Client Services (ECS) desk has established itself as an integral part of the franchise with continued business and market share growth (currently the top provider in EMEA for agency flow execution). As such you will be entering an environment where your colleagues share a market-leading mentality and constantly innovate and strive for excellence. Our product is global, so you will work closely with colleagues across the globe, who will appreciate and build on your skills, while also sharing their extensive experience to help you evolve.
The successful candidate will be the part of the equities algo development team and work with quants, traders, and technologists to develop, implement, support and maintain a market leading algo execution platform trading global markets. Work deliverables directly contribute to the business and this role participates in all aspects of the trading engine. You will work directly with all stakeholders in our business. Subject to skills match and interest, your work can span across engine infrastructure, quantitative models, introduction/use of trading signals, and trade analysis for fine-tuning and overall improvement of strategy behavior.
Job responsibilities
- Design and develop algo trading strategies and execution platform
- Design and develop our simulation environment and maintain our automated testing of strategies and their responses to staged market conditions
- Enhance existing strategies to improve performance by reviewing analytics and evolving our models/signals
- Support the desk by deep-diving into specific cases to interpret strategy behavior and address any issues
- Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodologies
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience in Java
- Proficiency in low latency, real-time, scalable trading systems
- Experience in building/dealing with high throughput messaging APIs, middleware products
- Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across NA, EMEA, APAC) while influencing and contributing towards the development of the global platform
- Experience with algorithmic trading, including systematic trading
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with FIX, Market Data, Analytics and OMS
- Market microstructure knowledge
- Equities, FX, options, derivatives asset class knowledge
- Jupyter/Pandas, KDB+/Q, Python, shell scripting
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- Advanced proficiency in Java
- Experience with low-latency, real-time, scalable trading systems
- Experience building or working with high-throughput messaging APIs and middleware
- Ability to work effectively within a global (NA, EMEA, APAC) team
- Experience with algorithmic and systematic trading
- Degree or experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field
- Experience with FIX, Market Data, Analytics and OMS
- Market microstructure knowledge
- Knowledge of equities, FX, options, derivatives asset classes
- Experience with Jupyter/Pandas, KDB+/Q, Python, shell scripting
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 — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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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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