Lead Software Engineering - Trading Tech

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; In loco; GBP 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

JPMorgan Chase & Co. within Trading Technology is seeking a Vice President, Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and run services for a multi-asset trading platform on AWS.

You will work with engineers and partners to translate business needs into resilient, observable, and secure software using Java and microservices, with emphasis on quality and maintainability.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on proficiency in Java with production-quality code.
• Experience building distributed systems with real-time data.
• CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices knowledge.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.

Mansioni

• Design, build, test, and deploy services aligned to business and functional requirements.
• Develop Java-based services using reactive, non-blocking, and streaming patterns.
• Implement microservices and event-driven integrations for real-time distribution workloads.
• Partner with peers to evolve domain-driven design practices and service boundaries.
• Use container platforms such as Kubernetes to run scalable services.
• Apply caching patterns using Redis to improve performance and resilience.
• Participate in code reviews and promote test-driven and behavior-driven development.
• Support performance testing and resilience validation with appropriate testing and mock frameworks.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, communicating progress, trade-offs, and risks clearly.
• Leverage AI-assisted SDLC tooling to accelerate delivery while maintaining engineering controls and security standards.

Conoscenze

Java

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Reactive programming

Event-driven

Caching

Testing practices

Code reviews

Domain-driven design

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Strumenti

Kafka

Redis

IBM MQ

Descrizione del lavoro

As a Vice President, Lead Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Trading Technology, you will help design, build, and run services that support a multi-asset trading platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You'll work closely with engineers and partners to turn business needs into resilient, observable, secure software using modern Java and microservices patterns. You'll contribute to technical direction through design discussions, strong engineering practices, and a focus on quality and maintainability. We value curiosity, teamwork, and continuous learning as we evolve a mission-critical platform. We also value clear communication and strong stakeholder engagement as part of day-to-day delivery., In this role, you will:

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy services aligned to business and functional requirements.
• Develop Java-based services using reactive, non-blocking, and streaming patterns where appropriate.
• Implement microservices and event-driven integrations for real-time distribution workloads.
• Partner with peers to evolve domain-driven design practices and service boundaries.
• Use container platforms such as Kubernetes to run scalable services.
• Apply caching patterns using technologies such as Redis to improve performance and resilience.
• Participate in code reviews and promote test-driven development and behavior-driven development practices.
• Support performance testing and resilience validation using appropriate testing and mock frameworks.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, communicating progress, trade-offs, and risks clearly.
• Leverage AI-assisted SDLC tooling (agentic development lifecycle) to accelerate delivery while maintaining engineering controls, code quality, and security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on proficiency in Java and a track record of delivering production-quality code.
• Experience building distributed systems that process high volumes of data with real-time delivery needs.
• Practical experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and modern delivery practices.
• Working knowledge of microservices and service-oriented design.
• Working knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging patterns.
• Experience with streaming and/or messaging technologies (for example, Kafka or IBM MQ).
• Experience with caching technologies (for example, Redis, GemFire, or Apache Ignite).
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience working in agile teams with strong engineering hygiene (testing, reviews, and operational readiness).
• Self-starter mindset with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deliver with ownership.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills It's a plus if you have:

• Experience with the Spring ecosystem.
• Experience building and operating workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Familiarity with trading systems and market structure concepts.
• Trading floor experience and/or quantitative/trading domain background.
• Exposure to the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot mission-critical production issues in distributed environments.
• A continuous learning mindset and interest in emerging engineering tools and practices.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives., J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.