Senior Director: Ultra-Low Latency C++ Trading

JP Morgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Senior Director of eSoftware Engineering to lead ultra-low-latency C++ development for its Equities Electronic Trading Technology team. You will own latency‑critical design, partner with traders, and drive performance, reliability, and production readiness across core platform, market data, and execution systems.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of software engineering, 5+ years of leadership, expert C++ (17/20), Linux, and experience optimizing latency and jitter.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating latency-sensitive production systems with measurable latency improvements
• Deep understanding of software and hardware interaction including CPU caches, memory hierarchy, NUMA and their effect on latency
• Strong CS fundamentals in data structures and algorithms and how they perform on real hardware
• Disciplined engineering practices including automated testing, code review, and CI/CD
• Scripting skills (Python, Bash) to automate development, testing, and analysis tasks
• Experience with Specification Driven Development and working alongside AI agents across the full SDLC

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and optimizes latency-critical components of the core trading platform.
• Partners with traders and researchers to evolve electronic market-making systems and risk controls.
• Implements instrumentation, benchmarks, and profiling to drive latency reduction.
• Works across software/hardware boundary including CPU caches, NUMA, and kernel-bypass networking.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and helps set engineering standards for performance.
• Owns production systems and automates remediation to improve stability.
• Contributes to team culture and diversity initiatives.

Skills

C++ expertise (modern C++17/20)

Low-latency design

Multithreading & concurrency

Linux systems programming

Performance tuning & profiling

Scripting (Python)

Leadership & mentorship

Production ownership & reliability

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts

Tools

perf

gdb

eBPF

VTune

Job description

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Senior Director of eSoftware Engineering to lead ultra-low-latency C++ development for its Equities Electronic Trading Technology team. You will own latency‑critical design, partner with traders, and drive performance, reliability, and production readiness across core platform, market data, and execution systems.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of software engineering, 5+ years of leadership, expert C++ (17/20), Linux, and experience optimizing latency and jitter.