JPMorganChase
Lead Software Engineer - Java / Python - Equity Derivatives - Front Office Quant Developer
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Lead Software Engineer - Java / Python - Equity Derivatives - Front Office Quant Developer
Lead Software Engineer (Markets Technology)
Join us and elevate your software engineering career as part of JPMorgan Chase. Here, you’ll design ground-breaking technology products that drive innovation across financial services. Collaborate with exceptional teams, expand your expertise, and make meaningful contributions to a dynamic environment where leading-edge thinking transforms outcomes. Be part of a culture that fosters growth, celebrates success, and trusts your leadership.
#### About the Role
As a Lead Software Engineer within the Markets Technology team, you’ll architect and deliver secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions critical to JPMorgan Chase’s market-leading capabilities. Leveraging an agile, collaborative approach, you’ll partner across functions to develop trusted, high-performance applications. Melding technical excellence with business impact, your leadership will shape robust solutions and ensure continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and scalability—fostering client success and sustained business growth.
#### Key Responsibilities
- Own production outcomes for critical equity derivatives workflows, encompassing monitoring, incident response, stakeholder communication, mitigation strategies, and root cause analysis and follow-through.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy innovative software solutions while emphasizing technical troubleshooting—systematic problem resolution and system optimization.
- Design, build, and maintain production-grade systems, adhering to secure, high-quality coding standards and ensuring seamless integrations with core and third-party systems.
- Produce architecture and design documentation for complex applications, ensuring alignment with business requirements, operational constraints, and improved operational rigor.
- Collaborate across teams—front office teams, operations, and technology—to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, and clarify product specifications for seamless delivery.
- Lead user acceptance testing (UAT) for financial applications, taking ownership of test strategy formulation, defect triage, evidence collection, and sign-off processes, with emphasis on areas like pricing, booking, and risk management.
- Promote AI-assisted engineering practices within the team, fostering cost-efficient, higher-quality delivery, automating processes, and refining tools for efficiency within security and correctness compliance.
- Optimise AI adoption in engineering workflows while ensuring responsible use, emphasizing data sensitivity, resiliency, and compliance—coaching peers in secure and compliant AI application.
- Strengthen release discipline, including regression assessments, fallback rollback planning, post-deployment verification, and system observability improvements.
- Collect and analyse production data and telemetry to develop improved reporting, tracking, and performance implementative solutions for better perceived stability and predictability.
- Identify latent failure patterns in production—root-cause analysis, correcting coding and architectural flaws to enhance system reliability.
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#### Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Exceptional software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience across the software development lifecycle, covering system design, development, testing, releases, and production operations.
- Proficient in Python, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience in operationalising production-grade systems, attention to stability, performance, and latency.
- Familiarity with large-scale enterprise environments, proficient in programming languages, databases, and query tools as they apply to building and maintaining high-quality integrations and services.
- Strong understanding of modern engineering frameworks and tooling such as:
- JUnit for testing
- Maven, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, Spring Batch for backend development
- Proven experience leveraging AI-supported tools in software development—authoring processes for validation of AI outputs, ensuring results are compliant with security, performance, and correctness.
- Responsible AI use skills: Ability to mitigate risks in AI-enhanced workflows—sensitive data handling, secure inputs and outputs, resiliency, compliance, and risk management.
- Analytical mindset, exceptional problem-solving and debugging abilities.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills—balancing delivery timelines, conflicts, and business alignment.
- Experience thriving in an agile environment, adept at multi-priority project management, and authoring comprehensive, accessible documentation.
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#### Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification in advanced software engineering.
- React experience, bridging frontend capabilities aligned with broader team needs.
#### About J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, delivering strategic advice and solutions to clients spanning:
- Leading corporations
- National and sub-national governments
- Wealthy individuals
- Institutional investors
Our ethos—“First-class business in a first-class way”—drives our client service, emphasizing trust, long-term collaboration, and exceeding expectations to achieve their objectives.
As a company, we recognise our **people—their varied talents and perspectives—**as the cornerstone of our success. We champion an inclusive workplace where authenticity and individuality are valued.
At J.P. Morgan:
- We celebrate diversity, fostering an equitable and inclusive company culture.
- We are an equal opportunity employer, building better outcomes for all employees.
- We strive to provide necessary accommodations, including for religious beliefs, mental health, or disability needs. Visit our FAQ for additional support guidelines.
#### About the Team
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial and Investment Bank (CIB) is a global powerhouse across:
- Corporate and investment banking
- Capital markets
- Securities services and investment banking
- Payments processing
Serving clients in over 100 countries, our firm acts as their trusted advisor for:
- Strategic partnerships
- Capital-raising
- Risk management
- Global liquidity and economic connectivity
Leveraging strategic insights and a trusted reputation, we equip clients with innovative financial solutions tailored to dynamic markets and evolving market needs.
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