Lead Software Engineer Java Equity Derivatives Sales and Trading Platform

J.P. MORGAN; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Greater London is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Global Equity Derivatives Sales and Trading Platform team. The role involves designing and delivering a best-in-class platform for complex financial products. Ideal candidates should have over 8 years of development experience, strong Java skills, and expertise in cloud technologies like AWS. This position offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, with a focus on collaboration and continuous learning.

Benefits

Comprehensive health care coverage

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• Over 8 years of hands-on experience in application development.
• Proven technical leadership with diverse teams.
• Expertise in designing scalable, resilient architectures.

Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology teams to articulate requirements.
• Develop enhancements to fulfill business objectives.
• Manage feature deliveries through the full SDLC process.

Skills

Java Core concepts

Technical leadership

Spring/Spring Boot

REST-based services

JVM performance analysis

Microservice architecture

AWS

Relational and NoSQL databases

Git/Bitbucket

JUnit and mocking frameworks

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics, or another technical major

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Jira

Jenkins

Gradle

Maven

Job description

Overview

As a Lead Software Engineer within the Global Equity Derivatives Sales and Trading Platform team, you will help promote the delivery of a best in class platform that provides intra-day pricing, workflow, hedge execution, client connectivity for a wide range of complex financial products.

The individual selected for this role 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 drive the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements gathering, helping take the strategy through to 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

• Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.
• Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
• Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.
• Manage ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
• Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems.
• Ensure technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable.
• Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
• Provide 3rd Level production support – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics, or another technical major.
• Over 8 years of hands-on experience in application development.
• Proven technical leadership, guiding teams with diverse backgrounds and skillsets.
• Deep understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, and concurrency.
• Strong experience with Java technologies and frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot and REST-based services.
• Expertise in JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap and thread dump analysis, and GC tuning.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable, resilient microservice architectures.
• Exposure to cloud compute platforms, particularly AWS.
• Proficient with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with the full development lifecycle and tools like Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, and Maven.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using JUnit and mocking frameworks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products.
• Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS Public Cloud products and solutions such as: ECS
• Cloud certification – AWS, etc.

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.