Lead Software Engineer- Equities
JP Morgan
5 - 10 years
Houston
Posted: 23/05/2026
Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Equities Electronic Trading Technology 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
- Identify opportunities to eliminate toil or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Understand the requirements and challenges facing our developers from CI/CD perspective
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- 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, computer science, computer engineering and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Have excellent knowledge of at least one mainstream software development language i.e. : Java / C++ / Python / GO / Kotlin / TypeScript / C#, etc..
- Hands on experience with FinOps
- Experience with AI
- Proficiency in low latency, real-time, scalable trading systems, and familiarity with algorithmic trading, including systematic trading
Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across NA, EMEA, APAC) while influencing and contributing to the buildout of Equities technology org
- Have overall understanding of 'what's the proper way of building efficient software' - and the implications of circumventing the guardrails which are in place.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Familiar with CI/CD and understand what, why, where, how, when it comes to using one of the following i.e., Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
Knowledge around building/dealing with high throughput messaging APIs, middleware products
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Be curious about the next generation of modern engineering tools, processes and practices
About Company
JP Morgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest and most prestigious financial institutions, headquartered in New York City. It operates in over 100 countries, providing a wide range of financial services including investment banking, asset management, commercial banking, and wealth management.The company serves corporations, governments, institutions, and individual clients, offering expertise in areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities trading, and credit management. Known for its global reach and financial strength, JP Morgan is a leader in innovation and sustainability within the banking industry.
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