About the company

J.P. Morgan's focus on being the world's most successful financial services institution starts with Technology - the driving force that gives us our leading edge.  Ongoing $billion investment in the firm's technological future means that by joining J.P. Morgan, you'll have a front-row seat to product innovation, and work on complex solutions to the most difficult financial problems.

Job Description

As a NA lead software engineer within the Global Equity Derivatives Sales and Trading Platform team you will help drive the delivery of a best in class platform that provides intra-day pricing, workflow, hedge execution, client connectivity for a wide range of complex financial products.

The individual selected for this role combine a unique mix of strong hands-on development skill, involvement in technical design and architecture decisions, and ability to draw on deep experience to provide technical leadership and mentoring to a new and growing team of technologists.

You will drive the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements gathering, helping take the strategy through to design, development, testing, deployment and support. The successful candidate must be passionate about working in a fast moving environment, collaborating across a global team of multiple disciplines and agile development process. The candidate must be excited about working with new technologies and continually learning and evolving their skillset.

 

Job Responsibilities

Manager of 5 developers, regular coaching, conduct code and design reviews. Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems. Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team. Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements. End-to-end ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support. Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems. Ensure technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable. Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups. Provide 3rd Level production support on a rota basis – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics or other technical major. Over 8 years’ experience in application development with recent hands-on responsibilities. Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience, and a range of different backgrounds and skillsets. Experience in managing a team of developers Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17. Strong experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, REST based services, etc. Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, GC tuning, etc. Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities. Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs Exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS.  Experience with Databases – relational as well as No-SQL Experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven. Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks.  Experience supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues. Experience working in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity.  Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm to work on a globally distributed team.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products. Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3. In-depth knowledge of AWS Public Cloud products and solutions such as: ECS Cloud certification – AWS, etc.