Cross Assets Electronic Trading Services (C++/Linux)- Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Electronic Trading Services team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develop secure, high-quality production C++ code; review and debug code to uphold standards and reliability.
• Influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations to enhance latency, throughput, and stability.
• Serve as a subject matter expert across key areas of electronic trading, architecture, and performance engineering.
• Advocate firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices; elevate craftsmanship within the engineering community.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Advanced C++ expertise, supported by formal training or certification.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in production.
• Proficiency with C++ on Unix, Linux, including performance diagnostics and tooling. Scripting skills to automate development, testing, and operational workflows.
• Strong understanding of software–hardware interaction for low-latency systems.
• Experience creating and automating test strategies and plans for both functional and non-functional requirements, and executing them.
• Depth in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines. Strong CS fundamentals: multithreading, memory management, object-oriented design.
• Collaborative mindset: Work closely with Application Development, Business Analysis, and Operations teams.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and supporting connectivity platform in C/C++.
• Solid working knowledge of FIX and binary protocols, as well as market microstructure.
• Experience with low-latency connectivity to FX, Commodities, Rates, Credits, Futures, and Options markets (such as LME, Eurex, CME).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.