
Electronic Trading Integration / DevOps Specialist - Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- City
- Jersey City
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer role on the Global Equities Electronic Trading team responsible for building and operating integration and DevOps solutions across trading systems. The role focuses on designing and implementing CI/CD frameworks, automating testing and workflows, and supporting releases, connectivity, and production environments. Requires strong scripting, cloud/DevOps, and trading integration skills (FIX, exchanges, middle/back-office connectivity) and close collaboration with stakeholders and clients. The position emphasizes ownership, automation, and improving operational stability and testing across the trade life cycle.
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Banking's Equities Electronic Trading team, 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.
Job responsibilities
- 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
- Develop and implement a framework for continuous integration environments, driving its adoption and evolution.
- Automate testing processes and any manual workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy. Test and validate individual applications and end-to-end integration. Integrate with various trading front office, middle office and back office system.
- Manage release processes, provide environment support, and offer production support as needed.
- Conduct client, venue certification, and connectivity for various exchanges, markets, and dark pools.
- Works very closely with stake holders and clients and update, configure, change the trading application and downstream peripherals.
- Develop and implement a framework for continuous integration environments, driving its adoption and evolution. Automate testing processes and any manual workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Be able to proactively contributes, volunteers for tasks, seeks ways to add value, and works independently. Approaches challenges constructively and pursues effective solutions.
- Be able to own responsibility for actions and outcomes, admits mistakes, and learns from them. Be able to Fulfil commitments, meets deadlines, and can be counted on by the team.
- Be able to adjust to changing circumstances and is open to new ideas and approaches. Collaboration: Works well with others, values teamwork, and supports colleagues
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced knowledge of programming language(s) - Advanced knowledge of programming language(s) - UNIX, Shell Scripting, Python Scripting, Automation scripting in any language. GIT, Jenkins, FIX Protocol, AWS, Cloud, Terraform
- New Features Validation, Functional & Regression Validation, End-to-end Validation, Stress Testing, Production Support, Change & Release Management.
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Scripting skills to automate day-to-day development and testing and integration tasks (Shell, Perl, Python)
- Creating and automating Test Strategies and Test Plans based on functional Testing and non-functional requirements and executing them
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Electronic trading space experience
- Capital Markets Domain, Front Office, Trade Life Cycle




