JPMorganChase · 1 day ago
Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python Quant
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$171K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expJPMorganChase is one of the oldest financial institutions, offering innovative financial solutions globally. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Equities Electronic Trading Team, you will enhance, build, and deliver technology products while driving significant business impact through your technical expertise.
Asset ManagementBankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Partner closely with research and trading teams to build and support integrated alpha research and backtesting platform
Design and build robust tools and frameworks to support quantitative research and production trading
Design, build and support critical research infrastructure (e.g. backtesting frameworks, strategy containers, high performant and scalable simulation environments, feature and strategy signal stores)
Develop interfaces and integration points between Python research environments and Java-based execution systems
Build and support research and trading analytics libraries (e.g. markouts, strategy analytics)
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Strong expertise in Python. Comfortable with scientific & dataset libraries such as pandas, numpy
Design and implementation of front-office systems for quant trading
Knowledge of data pipelines, market data processing and backtesting workflows
Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight. In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods. Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
Academic experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Knowledge of machine learning, statistical techniques and related libraries
Preferred
Additional advanced knowledge of Java / C++ is a strong plus
Practical cloud experience is a plus
Knowledge and experience in FIX, Market Data, Analytics, OMS, and equities trading in global markets are assets
Experience with KDB/Q, shell scripting are assets
Benefits
Comprehensive health care coverage
On-site health and wellness centers
A retirement savings plan
Backup childcare
Tuition reimbursement
Mental health support
Financial coaching
Company
JPMorganChase
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Allison Beer
CEO of Card Services and Connected Commerce
Dan Mendelson
CEO, Morgan Health
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