Senior Lead Software Engineer, Options Algorithmic Trading

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, Texas seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Markets Technology. You will contribute to secure, scalable, high-performance trading systems, leading development across order management, execution, market data, and risk components.

You will guide teams, translate trading strategies into efficient algorithms, and advance AI-assisted engineering practices with a focus on low-latency execution and reliability.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience; 2+ years leading technologists.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in Java with understanding of data structures, algorithms, and multi-threading.
• Experience leading use of enterprise AI-assisted software development tools and setting team expectations for correctness, performance and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, security, resiliency.
• Experience with algorithmic trading systems and familiarity with FIX.
• Practical cloud-native experience.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Execute creative software solutions with design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Drives adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices across teams for code quality and delivery speed.
• Applies knowledge of SDLC tools to improve automation and efficiency.
• Provides technical guidance to business teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Collaborate with product team to translate trading strategies into scalable algorithms.
• Continuously improve codebases for performance, testing, and reliability.
• Design and implement algorithmic trading strategies for options.

Skills

Java programming

Algorithmic trading

Performance optimization

Distributed systems

AI-assisted development tools

Education

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

AMPS

Kafka

Linux

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, Texas seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Markets Technology. You will contribute to secure, scalable, high-performance trading systems, leading development across order management, execution, market data, and risk components.

You will guide teams, translate trading strategies into efficient algorithms, and advance AI-assisted engineering practices with a focus on low-latency execution and reliability.