Lead Software Engineer, C++, Electronic Trading Technology

Testing Site - JPMC; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Hong Kong's Electronic Trading Technology division is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to shape architecture and deliver scalable, secure technology across multiple domains in an agile team. You will lead development efforts for high-availability trading applications on Linux, mentor engineers, and drive best practices from design through deployment and maintenance.

The role emphasizes collaboration with SRE, DevOps, and Product Management to align technology with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applied engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C++ development.
• Experience in equities trading product.
• Ability to lead design and deployment with minimal oversight.
• Experience with CI environments such as Jenkins.
• High-availability, distributed systems expertise.
• Collaboration with SRE, Product, DevOps and Lead Engineers.
• Trading-based applications experience on Linux.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality scripts and code modifications to support the application.
• Execute and automate the release process and manage changes for applications and environments.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, platform, and application subject matter experts to promote reliability.
• Investigate issues reported by Production Management.

Skills

C++ development

Equities trading product

Linux

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Education

Engineering concepts certification

Tools

Jenkins

Build tools

CI/CD tooling

Configuration management

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 Corporate and Investment Bank, specifically in the Electronic Trading Technology division, your role will be pivotal in an agile team. You will be tasked with enhancing, architecting, and delivering high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a significant technical contributor, your responsibilities will encompass developing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains within various business functions, all aimed at bolstering the firm's business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality scripts and code modifications to support the application
• Execute and automate the release process and manage changes for applications and environments.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle practices.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, platform, and application subject matter experts to promote reliability through communication and sharing best practices.
• Investigate issues reported by Production Management.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in engineering concepts with 10+ years of applied experience.
• Proficiency in C++ development
• Experienced in equities trading product
• Ability to independently address design and functionality problems with minimal oversight, managing tasks from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
• Proficient with configuration management, build tools, and continuous integration environments such as Jenkins.
• Experience in identifying problem or opportunity areas, developing and implementing necessary fixes and changes, and championing new technologies/processes from design to production.
• Expertise in implementing and managing high-availability infrastructure solutions with automatic failover, and designing, building, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Effective collaboration with teams such as Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Lead Software Engineers, and experience in mentoring and guiding team members constructively across various disciplines.
• Demonstrated proficiency in application development and support for associated infrastructure, with experience primarily in trading-based applications in Linux.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Knowledge of electronic trading and equities, futures, and options exchange connectivity in global markets is desirable.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.