Senior Lead eSoftware Engineer - Equities Algo Trading - Java - VP

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aumni is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer for Equities Algo Trading in London. This vital role involves designing and developing trading strategies and execution platforms, working collaboratively with global teams to enhance market-leading solutions.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in Java, low latency systems, and algorithmic trading. This position offers the opportunity to impact trading activities in a fast-paced environment, contributing to advanced technology in an essential sector.

Qualifications

• Proficient advanced experience in Java.
• Experience building scalable trading systems.
• Ability to work effectively with a global team.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop algo trading strategies.
• Enhance existing strategies to improve performance.
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions.

Skills

Java

Low latency, real-time trading systems

High throughput messaging APIs

Algorithmic trading

Computer Science or related field

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Experience in Mathematics or related technical field

Tools

FIX

Python

Jupyter/Pandas

Job description

Senior Lead Software Engineer - Equities Algo Trading - Java - VP

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

The JPM Electronic Client Services (ECS) desk has established itself as an integral part of the franchise with continued business and market share growth (currently the top provider in EMEA for agency flow execution). As such you will be entering an environment where your colleagues share a market-leading mentality and constantly innovate and strive for excellence. Our product is global, so you will work closely with colleagues across the globe, who will appreciate and build on your skills, while also sharing their extensive experience to help you evolve.

The successful candidate will be part of the equities algo development team and work with quants, traders, and technologists to develop, implement, support and maintain a market leading algo execution platform trading global markets. Work deliverables directly contribute to the business and this role participates in all aspects of the trading engine. You will work directly with all stakeholders in our business. Subject to skills match and interest, your work can span across engine infrastructure, quantitative models, introduction/use of trading signals, and trade analysis for fine-tuning and overall improvement of strategy behavior.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop algo trading strategies and execution platform
• Design and develop our simulation environment and maintain our automated testing of strategies and their responses to staged market conditions
• Enhance existing strategies to improve performance by reviewing analytics and evolving our models/signals
• Support the desk by deep-diving into specific cases to interpret strategy behavior and address any issues
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodologies
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience in Java
• Proficiency in low latency, real-time, scalable trading systems
• Experience in building/dealing with high throughput messaging APIs, middleware products
• Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across NA, EMEA, APAC) while influencing and contributing towards the development of the global platform
• Experience with algorithmic trading, including systematic trading
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience with FIX, Market Data, Analytics and OMS
• Market microstructure knowledge
• Equities, FX, options, derivatives asset class knowledge
• Jupyter/Pandas, KDB+/Q, Python, shell scripting

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

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. For more information about requesting an accommodation, please visit our FAQs.