Job DescriptionAs a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Markets Technology, 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.
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
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Develop Python-based automation, tooling, and platform integrations
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Deploy and support cloud-native applications on AWS and Kubernetes
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
- Improve platform reliability, observability, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Integrate trading applications, FIX platforms, and market-facing systems
- Partner with engineering and trading technology teams to automate and modernize infrastructure
- Drive DevOps best practices across development and operations teams
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Strong DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or Software Engineering experience
- Advanced Python programming skills
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting expertise. Strong Bash/Shell scripting experience
- Hands-on CI/CD pipeline development (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo, etc.)
- AWS cloud experience
- Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, or similar container technologies. Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
- Strong understanding of networking, distributed systems, and application resiliency
- Experience supporting highly available production platforms
- Electronic trading or front-office trading technology experience
- Working knowledge of FIX Protocol, market connectivity, and order lifecycle workflows
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- OMS / EMS platforms. Exchange connectivity
- Capital Markets
- QuickFIX / QuickFIX-J
- Low-latency or algorithmic trading systems
- Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, Geneos
- Java or C++
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
About the TeamJ.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
