KDB - Senior Lead Software Engineer

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer for the Electronic Trading Technology group to drive development of trusted market-leading products in a secure, scalable way. You will guide agile teams, deliver high-quality KDB-based systems, and mentor engineers across projects.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering, strong KDB/Q expertise, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in KDB and Q language with solid professional experience.
• Automation and continuous delivery methods; strong knowledge of CI/CD, resiliency, and security.
• Development lead and mentoring experience: requirements capture, planning, testing, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' work.
• Lead core development of KDB-based systems and framework development.
• Mentor team members; manage work and improve SDLC processes.
• Develop scalable real-time solutions using agile methodologies.
• Influence product design, functionality, and operational processes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas.
• Promote firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC best practices.
• Encourage adoption of leading-edge technologies within the team.

Skills

KDB

Q language

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Mentoring

Automation

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

C++

Java

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank in Electronic Trading Technology, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Doing core development and delivery of KDB based systems, including framework development.
• Leads team members via book of work management. Improve team through SDLC, testing and continuous improvement of coding standards.
• Develops scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) KDB, Q language
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Development lead and mentoring experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, time and effort estimation, delivery planning, testing, user acceptance testing.
• Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language. Solid professional experience using KDB.
• Deep understanding of KDB+tick design and data organization, performance implications of different approaches.
• Practical experience developing/running large datasets and optimizing query performance.
• Practical experience scaling and load-balancing of KDB applications. Practical experience building resilient and high-availability KDB applications.Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms.
• AWS Experience.
• Experience in Terraform and Kubernetes from managing a Production Plant in Public Cloud.
• Experience other languages e.g. Python/C/C++/Java.