Java Sr Lead eSoftware Engineer - Equities Algo Trading - VP
Headquartered in New York City, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States.
You'll develop and maintain a market-leading equities algo execution platform using Java, focusing on low-latency real-time trading systems, high-throughput messaging APIs, and simulation environments. Working across JPMorgan's Electronic Client Services desk—the top EMEA agency flow provider—you'll collaborate globally with quants, traders, and technologists on trading engine infrastructure, quantitative models, and strategy optimization. This VP-level leadership role involves designing algo strategies, enhancing performance through analytics, and driving operational stability across the global platform.
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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