Senior Lead Software Engineer, Central Risk Booking, Equities Trading Technology

Testing Site - JPMC; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Hong Kong seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive design and development of the execution and liquidity platform for the Central Risk Book desk. You will contribute across engine infrastructure, trading signals, and real-time processing, delivering scalable software within an agile team.

You will work with quants, traders, and technologists to implement secure, high-performance systems and drive continuous improvement in availability and resiliency across the platform.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• Proficiency in Java with low latency, real-time systems experience.
• Experience with algorithmic trading and high throughput messaging.
• Strong ability to collaborate across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop execution and systematic liquidity provision platform.
• Support the desk on trading signals and liquidity strategies.
• Develop scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodologies.
• Maintain and support legacy systems.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation and improve stability.
• Produce secure, high-quality production code and review peers' code.
• Influence platform design and operational processes.

Skills

Java

Low latency systems

Real-time processing

High throughput messaging

Python

Algorithmic trading

Job description

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization, youare 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, optimizing performance, and improving the scalability and resiliency of the system.

Job responsibilities

• 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
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the platforms design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

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