Senior Director - Ultra-Low-Latency C++ Trading Tech

JP Morgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); Vor Ort; USD 250.000 - 390.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Senior Director of eSoftware Engineering to lead highly skilled engineers on the ultra-low-latency electronic trading platform within the Equities Electronic Trading Technology team in Jersey City. You will design, build, and optimize nanosecond-scale C++ components powering market data, order execution, and market-making systems.

You will partner with traders and researchers, drive performance through instrumentation, and set engineering standards for latency,

Qualifikationen

• Formal training or certification on 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.
• Expert-level modern C++ (C++17/20), including templates and compile-time techniques, object lifetime and memory management, and a strong understanding of the code the compiler generates.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating latency-sensitive production systems, with a track record of measurable latency or throughput improvements.
• Deep understanding of software and hardware interaction, including CPU caches, the memory hierarchy, branch prediction, and NUMA, and their effect on latency and jitter.
• Strong multithreading and concurrency skills, including the C++ memory model, atomics, and lock-free data structures such as ring buffers and SPSC/MPMC queues.
• Proficiency in Linux systems programming and networking (TCP, UDP multicast), and with performance tools such as perf, gdb, eBPF, or VTune.
• Strong computer science 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 (e.g., Python, Bash) to automate development, testing, and analysis tasks.
• Hands-on, day-to-day experience with Specification Driven Development and with working alongside AI agents across the full software development lifecycle, from specification and design through implementation, testing, and code review

Aufgaben

• Designs, builds, and optimizes latency-critical components of the core trading platform in modern C++, including threading and event-processing model, inter-component messaging, memory management, and networking layers.
• Partners with traders and quantitative researchers to build and evolve electronic market-making systems, including quoting and quote management, real-time pricing and hedging, and pre-trade risk controls.
• Treats latency as a measured quantity: builds instrumentation, benchmarks, and profiling into the platform, and drives down tail latency and jitter through data-driven optimization.
• Works across the software/hardware boundary, including CPU caches, NUMA, core isolation, kernel-bypass networking, and hardware timestamping, partnering with infrastructure and network engineering on host and colocation tuning.
• Develops secure, high-quality, well-tested production code, reviews and debugs code written by others, and helps set the platform’s engineering standards for performance, correctness, and design.
• Owns systems in production, diagnosing issues quickly during live trading and automating remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Kenntnisse

Modern C++

Multithreading

Linux networking

Performance tuning

CI/CD

Ausbildung

Software engineering training

Tools

Perf

GDB

eBPF

VTune

Jobbeschreibung

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Senior Director of eSoftware Engineering to lead highly skilled engineers on the ultra-low-latency electronic trading platform within the Equities Electronic Trading Technology team in Jersey City. You will design, build, and optimize nanosecond-scale C++ components powering market data, order execution, and market-making systems.

You will partner with traders and researchers, drive performance through instrumentation, and set engineering standards for latency,