Lead Java Engineer for Real-Time Derivatives Platform

Testing Site - JPMC

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to advance our real-time derivatives pricing, risk management, and streaming position aggregation platform within the Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management team. You will drive feature delivery from inception through deployment, mentor junior developers, and coordinate with business, quant, and technology groups across a globally distributed team.

The role requires strong Java expertise (up to Java 17), Spring Framework mastery, and a track

Qualifications

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Expertise in Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17
Advanced hands-on coding experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring JPA/Hibernate, and REST based services
Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs, analyze system performance using tools such as Dynatrace
Experience with Databases – relational and No-SQL (Sybase, Oracle, Mongo DB)
Expertise with Messaging Middleware platforms (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS
Proven experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, and Maven
Demonstrated experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
Ability to work in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity and supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues

Responsibilities

Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
Takes full ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, while ensuring they are robust and supportable
Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
Provides 3rd Level production support to analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system
Mentors junior Java developers and conduct code and design reviews