Lead, Real-Time Trading Risk Platform Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London invites a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead hands-on development of a real-time risk stack within the Electronic Trading Real-Time Position and Risk team.

You will architect, implement, and deliver latency-sensitive systems that update positions and risk in line with trade lifecycle events. You will mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and raise engineering standards to ensure reliable, auditable, and production-ready solutions across trading, risk,

Qualifications

• Strong Core Java development skills with solid object-oriented design and API design.
• Proven ability to build low-latency, event-driven, real-time systems, including messaging patterns, ordering, idempotency, and backpressure.
• Deep knowledge of multi-threading and concurrency with strong performance tuning and memory management awareness.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, retries, failure modes, replay, and resilience patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of the real-time position and risk platform, including architecture, patterns, performance, and resilience
• Deliver real-time position keeping capabilities across trade lifecycle events, including amendments, cancels, allocations, and booking states
• Build and enhance real-time risk capabilities, including risk factor ingestion, curve and spread moves, sensitivities, and scenario or P&L explain where applicable
• Implement straight-through processing and controls, including reconciliation versus booking, data quality checks, audit trail, and observability
• Partner with execution and booking teams to define robust integrations, clear data contracts, and safe change management
• Own and enforce non-functional requirements, including latency budgets, throughput targets, determinism, correctness, fault tolerance, and recovery
• Act as a technical subject matter expert for stakeholders and communicate tradeoffs clearly in business terms
• Raise engineering standards across coding practices, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, release discipline, and production readiness
• Drive design reviews and execution discipline to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions
• Mentor engineers and support hiring, onboarding, and team development

Skills

Core Java

Low-latency systems

Multi-threading

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux

SDLC discipline

CI/CD

Mentoring

System architecture

Incident management

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London invites a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead hands-on development of a real-time risk stack within the Electronic Trading Real-Time Position and Risk team.

You will architect, implement, and deliver latency-sensitive systems that update positions and risk in line with trade lifecycle events. You will mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and raise engineering standards to ensure reliable, auditable, and production-ready solutions across trading, risk,