Computer Science jobs in United Kingdom

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 successful candidate will join the CRB Execution Platform team and collaborate with quants, traders, and technologists to develop, implement, support, and maintain the systematic liquidity provision and execution platform for Central Risk Book desk. The work delivered in this role will have a direct impact on the business, and you will participate in all aspects of the trading platform. You will work closely with all stakeholders across the business.

Depending on your skills and interests, your responsibilities may include working on engine infrastructure, introducing and utilizing alpha signals, designing and building matching engines, performance optimization, and improving the scalability and resiliency of the system.

• Design and develop execution and systematic liquidity provision platform
• Support the desk on the implementation of trading signals & liquidity provision strategies
• Develop scalable real‑time processing solutions using agile methodologies
• Maintain and support legacy systems
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Develop secure and high‑quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
• Drive decisions that influence the platform’s design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

• 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 with Python
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

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.

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.