
Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python Trading Systems
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 17 hours ago
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- City
- Jersey City
- Country
- United States
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Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial & Investment Bank responsible for hands-on development, support, and enhancement of real-time FICC trading systems. Design and develop trading tools and streamlined technology across pre-trade, trade capture and pricing domains, collaborating with trading, risk and P&L teams. Lead transformation initiatives including analysis of legacy systems, building proof-of-concepts, pilot projects and reporting metrics to senior leadership. Work with Java, Python, C++ and messaging technologies to ensure scalable, stable and secure solutions.
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.
Job responsibilities
- Excellent programming and problem-solving skills with 100% hands-on development, support, and bug fixes for real-time trading system
- Design and develop trading tools, technical solutions and streamline technological stack across pre-trade, trade capture and pricing domain of FICC asset class
- Conduct thorough analysis of legacy systems and processes; identify areas for improvement and innovation
- Develop metrics and KPIs to measure the success of transformation initiatives and report progress to senior leadership
- Drive the design and development of the new system, deep dive in-to existing system and processes to propose solutions
- Collaborate with wider SPG Trading, Risk and P&L teams to build scalable and robust solutions that support business needs
- Quickly develop proof-of-concept solution to prove feasibility of technological solutions
- Proactively communicate to management and business stake holders
- Lead pilot projects to test new technologies and methodologies, evaluating their potential impact on the firm
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts or 5+ years applied experience
- Experience using Java, Python, C++. Spring Boot and messaging system. Good working knowledge of .NET framework and SQL/Stored Procedure
- Experience in developing software using Kafka, IBM MQ, Tibco and AMPS as messaging hubs
- Experience in developing transformation projects with latest technological skills in Fixed Income trading system domain
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
- Experience in working on complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
- Strong understanding of programming and problem-solving skills
- Experience as a lead software engineer for a small team
- Graduate degree in Computer science/engineering field
- AI/ML, NLP





