Lead Software Engineer - Equities

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial & Investment Banking, you play a vital role in an agile team dedicated to improving, developing, and providing reliable, cutting-edge technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains within various business functions to support the firm's strategic goals.

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
• Designs, develops, tests, and implements Equities Order Management Systems
• Defines architecture patterns aligning with business and technical strategies
• Collaborates with a global team to deliver new features and bug fixes
• Understands business requirements, prioritize demands with stakeholders, translate to technical tasks and prepare delivery plan
• Assists in rolling out system upgrades and provide expert technical support
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

   

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 in one or more programming language(s)- Java/J2EE
• Expertise in low latency application development, and Core Java concepts
• Proficient in Linux, SQL and scripting
• Experience with large-scale distributed applications in mission-critical environments
• Familiarity with message/event-driven applications and Messaging APIs like JMS
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Knowledge of FIX Protocol, and Trade lifecycle is a plus
• Experience working in financial services technology 
• Practical cloud native experience