Electronic Trading and Risk Management Application Developer -Software Engineer III

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a Software Engineer III to join their eTrading Fast Risk & Pricing Solutions team in London. You will design and develop high-performance, latency-sensitive applications while collaborating with a globally distributed team. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in Java, experience with enterprise software development, and a passion for technology. This role offers opportunities for technical growth and impact on trading strategies.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise software development.
• Excellent understanding of Java fundamentals and frameworks.
• Experience in building high-performance, latency-sensitive applications.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, latency-sensitive code.
• Write efficient, secure, high-quality code and automated tests.
• Collaborate effectively as part of a globally distributed team.
• Support junior colleagues in their technical growth.

Skills

Java fundamentals

Spring Boot

Multi-threading

Messaging technologies

Agile methods

Event driven architectures

Communication skills

Linux environment

Tools

JUnit

Mockito

Kafka

Job description

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the eTrading Fast Risk & Pricing Solutions team, you 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. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

JPMorgan’s eTrading Fast Risk & Pricing Solutions team is seeking a highly motivated Java engineer to join our global, diverse technology organization. We focus on providing modern solutions to support the Corporate & Investment Bank’s trading businesses across a wide range of asset classes including government and corporate bonds, interest rate swaps, exchange traded funds and FX options. Our critical systems support front-office traders and automated algorithmic trading systems to make effective trading and hedging decisions to generate revenue and minimize the company's exposure to risk.

You will collaborate with colleagues to perform technical analysis of client requirements, participate in estimation, planning, code reviews, architecture design sessions and retrospectives. This role offers the opportunity to learn about risk and pricing from colleagues, stakeholders and extensive training resources. This exciting role provides you with the opportunity to see the direct impact of your contributions on the trading businesses and receive client feedback from around the globe. You must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist, eager to continuously learn and enhance your skills.

Job responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, latency-sensitive code, incorporate security requirements and reviewing code written by team members using software engineering best practices
• Write efficient, secure, high-quality code and automated tests
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code
• Identify opportunities to eliminate recurring issues to improve overall stability, resiliency and reliability of software applications and systems
• Collaborate effectively as part of a globally distributed team
• Support junior colleagues in their technical growth

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in enterprise software development
• Excellent understanding of Java fundamentals and frameworks (Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies and computer networks
• Experience in building high-performance, latency-sensitive Java applications
• Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting software running in a Linux environment, familiarity with the Linux operating system and system utilities
• Experience with modern testing tools (JUnit, Mockito etc)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience working with globally distributed engineers and stakeholders
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile methods
• Hands-on experience with event driven architectures and distributed messaging technologies ( AMPS, Kafka )
• Energetic, determined, motivated, curious and able to work in a fast-paced environment whilst delivering high-quality work products

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with front-end technologies, like React and TypeScript
• Knowledge of JP Morgan's Athena trade management platform would be useful
• Experience working with cloud architectures and services