Lead Software Engineer, Java, Equities Technology

JPMorgan Chase; Remote; SGD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in financial services is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to enhance an Equities front office risk platform in Singapore. This role involves leading the development of high-value features in a dynamic agile environment, collaborating with other teams, ensuring best practices, and guiding junior developers. An ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience, with strong proficiency in Java and React, and a background in microservices deployment. Join a diverse team committed to excellence.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Collaborative team environment

Career advancement opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with mastery in Java.
• Experience with React in a commercial environment.
• Knowledge of deploying microservices using RESTful.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of value-add activities within an agile scrum team.
• Develop new features for risk aggregation leveraging React and Java.
• Guide junior developers on best practices in development.

Skills

Java

React

Agile methodologies

Microservices

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or Mathematics

Tools

Spring/Spring Boot

Kafka

Jenkins

Junit

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. A Lead Full Stack Engineer is required to drive the development of the next generation of features for an Equities front office risk and aggregation platform. We have an exciting opportunity within an agile development team working on a best-in-class pre-trade and risk aggregation platform for an Equities front office market making desk. You will collaborate with skilled engineers across global teams and gain experience with the complete risk management lifecycle for an Equities front office desk.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase Equities Trading Business, you serve as a Lead Engineer on our agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will partner with Product Owners, Trading and Quantitative Research to bring their vision of the next set of critical business functions into reality.

Job responsibilities

• Own the delivery of value-add activities as part of a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.
• Enhance and develop new features for risk aggregation and hedging, leveraging React and Java
• Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
• Collaborate with other frontend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of re-suable components to facilitate faster development.
• Closely collaborate with a number of teams including Trading, Sales and Quantitative Research, UX as well as other technology teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other related disciplines
• 8 or more years of software engineering experience. Mastery in Java with respect to designing, coding, testing , and software delivery
• Commercial experience working with React and Java
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services using RESTful
• Knowledge of the web technologies (Sass/CSS/HTML/Javascript/Typescript/NodeJS ecosystem and bundling tooling)
• Knowledge of server side technologies (Spring/Spring boot, messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ, Kafka, maven/gradle, junit mocking frameworks)
• Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
• Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning within a commercial setting
• Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to frontend libraries such as ag-grid, highcharts, state management such as redux
• Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
• Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.

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.