Senior Director: Ultra-Low Latency C++ for Equities

JP Morgan Chase; New York (NY); On-site; USD 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care

On-site health & wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in New York is seeking a Senior Director of eSoftware Engineering to lead ultralow-latency C++ development for the Equities Electronic Trading Technology team. You will design and optimize latency-critical components across market data, execution, and market-making systems.

You will partner with traders and researchers to deliver high-performance, low-latency technology, drive instrumentation, and set engineering standards for production systems.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years leading technologists to manage complex items across the organization.
• Expert-level modern C++ (C++17/20) and memory management.
• Hands-on experience with latency-sensitive production systems.
• Strong Linux systems programming and networking knowledge.
• Scripting skills (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Experience with Specification Driven Development and AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and optimizes latency-critical components of the core trading platform in modern C++.
• Partner with traders and researchers to evolve electronic market-making systems.
• Instrument latency measurements and drive down tail latency through data-driven optimization.
• Work across CPU caches, NUMA, kernel bypass networking, and hardware timestamping.
• Develop secure, high-quality, well-tested production code and set engineering standards.
• Owns systems in production and automates remediation for stability.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Modern C++ engineering

Multithreading & concurrency

Linux systems programming

Performance optimization

Python scripting

Education

Formal training in software engineering

Tools

Perf

gdb

eBPF

VTune

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in New York is seeking a Senior Director of eSoftware Engineering to lead ultralow-latency C++ development for the Equities Electronic Trading Technology team. You will design and optimize latency-critical components across market data, execution, and market-making systems.

You will partner with traders and researchers to deliver high-performance, low-latency technology, drive instrumentation, and set engineering standards for production systems.