Lead Software Engineer

Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Asset Management, 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. You will be at the helm of developing our strategic in-house multi-asset trading platform, integrating with a multitude of liquidity providers and market makers. This role is pivotal in shaping the electronic interactions of the desk to discover liquidity and pricing available in the market.
Job responsibilities

• Designing and building our next-generation Trading platform.
• Implementing asynchronous Java code to handle real-time data processing.
• Building and maintaining pipelines for efficient data processing and integration with external systems and APIs using Java technologies.
• Interfacing with external vendors providing FIX connectivity to all brokers, ECNs, and liquidity providers like Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, etc.
• Working with other technologists, traders, and quants to deliver business solutions.
• Collaborating with the trading team to analyze datasets and develop data-driven applications using core Java programming.
• Staying updated on the latest Java libraries and open-source tools relevant to trading and finance.
• Contributing to the development of trading algorithms and strategies, leveraging statistical and mathematical principles where applicable, with a focus on Java implementation.
• Taking ownership of projects from inception to completion, with a focus on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions using Java.
• Applying quantitative and ML techniques to data analysis. Managing the full Software Delivery Lifecycle including coding, testing, deployment, and support, in a DevOps environment.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Candidate should be profient in Java and Kotlin (Services), Kafka, Cassandra, WPF C# and React, Python (ML/AI).
• Strong technologist with experience developing in Java, Kotlin within the financial services industry.
• Experience with concurrent in Java with microservices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently or collaboratively within a team.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies and business requirements, with a focus on Java programming.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Numerate degree or equivalent (Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics).
• Deep and broad technology expertise in application, data and infrastructure architecture, with current experience of Java, SQL & NoSQL databases, reactive and/or complex event processing.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS or other cloud certifications is a bonus.
• Experience of working in financial services, in a front-office environment is a bonus.
• Understanding of Asset Management and the investment management process is a bonus.
• CFA / CQF or other applied qualification is a bonus.
• Development experience in C#, HTML5 / JavaScript is a bonus.