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Java Sr Lead eSoftware Engineer - Equities Algo Trading - VP

JPMorgan· LONDON, LONDON, United KingdomLicensed sponsor
Posted 29 Jun 2026 · Added 18 Jun 2026, 21:22
JPMorgan3.9 (20,400)10,000+ employees

Headquartered in New York City, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States.

Levels.fyi · global compSWE $164k TC ($122k–$205k)
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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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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 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