Sr Lead Software Engineer, Java, React, Kafka - Equity Derivatives Sales & Trading Technology

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Technology division, you will serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Specifically, you will work on a global platform responsible for high, low, and zero-touch secondary quoting & trading for highly complex over-the-counter structured derivatives and securitised structured products., * Work with key stakeholders in Sales, Trading, QR, Operations and others globally to ensure the Secondary platform meets business requirements.

• Directly contribute towards the ongoing efforts to re-engineer & re-architect the existing Secondary platform to make it performant, truly highly available, stable, efficient, and scalable.
• Lead the effort & contribute towards the identification and implementation of opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues, with aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts, and proficient advanced experience.
• Ability to solve complex problems and a track record of high performance and delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing globally distributed real-time systems using Java and React.js
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Good overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
• Familiar with Microservices architecture concepts and cloud-based technology, preferably AWS.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience of working in a front office environment within financial services
• Understanding of Equity Derivatives products.
• Experience of publish/subscribe messaging protocols e.g. AMQP, RabbitMQ
• Exposure to Relational Database Management Systems (Sybase)
• Exposure to NoSQL systems (Cassandra, MongoDB .etc.)
• Education to degree level, ideally in a computer science, mathematical or engineering discipline or equivalent

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives., J.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.