Sr Lead Software Engineer (C++ / FICC Etrading)

Fairygodboss; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Commercial & Investment Bank – eTrading team in London. You will lead a high-performing, agile group delivering trusted market-leading technology in a secure, scalable fashion.

You will guide design choices, drive secure production code, review peers, and promote responsible AI use across teams. The role requires deep expertise across cloud native architectures and low-latency systems.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with applied experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and stability.
• Proven mastery of C/C++ and enterprise AI-assisted tooling.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to support the FICC eTrading teams and vendors.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code; reviews others' code.
• Influences product design, functionality, and operations decisions.
• Acts as a subject matter expert across focus areas within the function.
• Contributes to SDLC governance and promotes AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Promotes use of leading-edge technologies and secure coding standards.
• Advances team culture around diversity, inclusion, and respect.
• Ensures automation and tooling improve code quality and delivery speed.
• Leverages SDLC tools and validated AI outputs to improve value.

Skills

C and C++ programming

Cloud native

AI-assisted tools

Secure coding practices

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Security tooling

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - eTrading team, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the FICC eTrading business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and estensive applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced knowledge and demonstrated skills in in programming languages C and C++
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience working within Financial Services Industry
• Hands on experience on high throughput and low latency systems
• Hands on experience in electronic trading systems

ABOUT US

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. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

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.