Lead eSoftware engineer, Electronic Trading & Liquidity Integration, Equities Technologies Team, DevOps

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong seeks a senior algorithmic trading engineer to develop, implement and maintain a benchmark trading platform and liquidity-seeking systems across Asian markets.

The role blends hands-on coding with design and operational excellence. You will collaborate with front-office traders and cross-functional teams to translate trading requirements into robust algo strategies, optimize smart order routing, and strengthen reliability, automation, and incident response throughout the

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in related roles.
• Familiarity with electronic trading systems and controls.
• Deep knowledge of financial services IT systems.
• Hands-on experience in electronic trading, SRE, or related fields.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash).
• Understanding of SDLC, Agile, CI/CD, resiliency and security.
• Experience with cloud/AI/ML or related tech domains.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, supports and maintains the benchmark algo trading platform.
• Contributes to front-office pre- and post-trade analysis and strategy design.
• Collaborates to design and build algo strategies and smart order routing.
• Promotes reliability across the software development lifecycle and deployment practices.
• Translates client trading requirements into customized algo strategies.
• Sets up A/B experiments to evaluate algo performance.
• Ensures smooth onboarding and data flow with upstream/downstream teams.
• Drives post-incident analysis and corrective actions.
• Documents runbooks and SOPs; fosters a culture of reliability.
• Works with financial data (trading, execution, risk).
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Electronic trading experience

Site reliability engineering

Automation scripting

CI/CD knowledge

Financial services IT knowledge

Agile methodologies

Tools

Python

Bash

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Description

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

Job responsibilities

• Develops, implement, support and maintain a growing benchmark algorithmic trading platform & liquidity seeking and crossing platform of Asian markets
• Contributes significantly to the front office trading team in terms of pre and post-trade analysis and the design of the algorithmic trading strategies & the smart order routing strategies.
• Collaborates with development teams to design and build the algorithmic trading strategies / trading platform / internalization strategies for multiple business silos while guarantee the robustness of our highly resiliency trading platform & market sensitive dark pools.
• Collaborates with development teams to integrate reliability into the software development lifecycle, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborates with business to understand client trading requirements, and translate them into client customized algorithmic trading strategies.
• Collaborates with business to set up A/B experimental flows to evaluate the performance of algorithmic trading strategies.
• Collaborates with upstream Client Onboarding team / Order Management team & downstream Exchange Connectivity team / Data Quality team to ensure the smoothness of the trading flow, including but not limited to: end to end support of onboarding new client flow, expose algo trading params to desks and clients and ensure the algo trading params are correctly passed to the downstream systems and functionality wise work as expected.
• Drives, lead impact analysis / actions / follow ups on APAC cash exchange mandatory events across equity trading teams. Walk through with Business and Tech application teams on what exact changes on Exchange side and impacts to our trading systems and trading strategies. Work with the application teams to ensure the changes are implemented in a timely manner and with high quality, ensure a smooth go live.
• Automates repetitive tasks and processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Leads incident response efforts, conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Contributes to the development and maintenance of documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for system operations and incident management.
• Engages with cross-functional teams to foster a culture of reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Works with various financial data (trading/execution/risk data)
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• At least 5 years of related experience
• Familiarity on electronic trading system and the controls
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Hands-on experience in electronic trading system, site reliability engineering, or a related field
• Proficient in scripting and automation using one or more languages (e.g., Python, Bash, etc.).
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies, with a focus on CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

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.