JPMorganChase · 2 days ago
Lead Equities Risk Engineer - Lead Software Engineer
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $215K/yr
12+ years expJPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. The Lead Equities Risk Engineer will drive the delivery of a platform for real-time position and risk management in equity derivatives, providing technical leadership and mentoring to a growing team while ensuring high-quality software development and performance optimization.
Asset ManagementBankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Design, develop and maintain high-quality Java applications, ensuring clean, efficient and well-structured code
Provide technical leadership to a small team, guiding developers on design, implementation, code quality and best practices while ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
Build and optimize low-latency, high-throughput components for equities risk systems, ensuring real-time processing and stable performance during peak market loads
Apply object-oriented design principles and industry-standard design patterns to create modular, scalable and maintainable systems
Adopt Test-Driven Development (TDD) to deliver reliable, well-tested and production ready code
Ensure compliance with coding standards, security guidelines and architectural best practices throughout the development life cycle
Implement and support CI/CD pipeline principles, enabling automated build, test and deployment workflows
Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize application performance, ensuring reliability, scalability and efficient resource utilization
Follow Agile principles and actively participate in Scrum ceremonies, supporting iterative and collaborative development
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end to end features and resolve technical issues efficiently
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification in Software Engineering concepts and 12 years of hands-on experience with Java technologies
Ability to lead and mentor a small engineering team in architecture, development and problem-solving
Java 17+ experience with multi-threaded, high-performance backend development
Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Spring Framework, including microservices, REST services and dependency management
Practical experience with FIX protocol, including message parsing, handling and connectivity to trading venues
Experience with high-performance messaging and persistence frameworks, such as Chronicle Queue, AMPS or other ultra-low-latency technologies
Proficiency with gRPC and high-throughput inter-service communication
Ability to independently design and implement complex logic, algorithms and workflows for scalable distributed systems
Experience in Unix/Linux environments, including shell scripting for automation and operational tasks
Experience developing applications on AWS Cloud, leveraging services such as Lambda, S3, Glue, Redshift, Step Functions and others to build scalable and reliable systems
Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation and build pipelines (Git, Jenkins, Maven etc.)
Experience building distributed applications, event-driven systems and real-time processing pipelines
Preferred
Experience with React/JS
Experience with Deephaven or similar real-time analytics/data visualization engines
Understanding of market reference data, including symbology, pricing, market feeds
Financial markets background, ideally equity trading, market microstructure or front-office trading systems
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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