Lead Equities Risk Engineer - Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

As a lead software engineer within the Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management team you will help drive the delivery of a best in class platform that handles real time streaming position and risk management for a wide range of complex financial products.

The individual selected for this role will 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 help drive the full delivery lifecycle through 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

• 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Core Technical Skills

• 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 automaton and operational tasks.
• Experience developing applications on AWS Cloud, leveraging services such as Lambda, S3, Glue, Redshift, Step Functions and others to build a scalable and reliable systems.

Development Practices

• 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.

Good to have

• 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.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

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.