Tech Lead - FI Electronic Trading Real-Time Position & Risk in London

Join a front-office engineering team that sits directly in the electronic trading execution path, where your work impacts decisions in real time. You will help shape a low-latency, event-driven platform that keeps positions current and risk accurate as trades happen. You will partner closely with trading, sales, desk strategists, quants, risk, and engineering teams across execution, market data, and booking. This role offers the opportunity to set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and grow a high-performing team. If you thrive in performance-critical systems and enjoy solving complex market and risk problems, this role is built for you.

As a Sr Manager of Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase in the Electronic Trading Real-Time Position and Risk team, you will lead hands-on development of a real-time risk stack across architecture, delivery, quality, and operational excellence. You will build resilient, latency-sensitive systems that update position and risk in line with trade lifecycle events. You will translate desk needs into scalable designs with clear contracts, auditability, and strong controls. You will set engineering standards that improve reliability, testability, and production readiness. You will mentor engineers and help grow a team that delivers safely at high velocity.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of the real-time position and risk platform, including architecture, patterns, performance, and resilience.
• Deliver real-time position keeping capabilities across trade lifecycle events, including amendments, cancels, allocations, and booking states.
• Build and enhance real-time risk capabilities, including risk factor ingestion, curve and spread moves, sensitivities, and scenario or P&L explain where applicable.
• Implement straight-through processing and controls, including reconciliation versus booking, data quality checks, audit trail, and observability.
• Partner with execution and booking teams to define robust integrations, clear data contracts, and safe change management.
• Own and enforce non-functional requirements, including latency budgets, throughput targets, determinism, correctness, fault tolerance, and recovery.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert for stakeholders and communicate tradeoffs clearly in business terms.
• Raise engineering standards across coding practices, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, release discipline, and production readiness.
• Drive design reviews and execution discipline to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Mentor engineers and support hiring, onboarding, and team development.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Strong Core Java development skills with solid object-oriented design and API design.
• Proven ability to build low-latency, event-driven, real-time systems, including messaging patterns, ordering, idempotency, and backpressure.
• Deep knowledge of multi-threading and concurrency with strong performance tuning and memory management awareness.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, retries, failure modes, replay, and resilience patterns.
• Experience operating production systems on Unix or Linux, including logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Ability to define and implement system architecture, including domain boundaries, component ownership, and data contracts.
• Strong SDLC discipline, including unit and integration testing, regression testing, and performance testing.
• Experience building systems that handle high-volume streaming inputs with correctness guarantees.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, including design reviews, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and mentoring.
• Calm, structured approach in production environments, including incident management and root-cause remediation.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience delivering front-office risk and position solutions in fixed income, macro, or credit trading environments.
• Familiarity with products such as government bonds, interest rate swaps, futures, bonds, credit default swaps, and exchange-traded funds.
• Knowledge of risk concepts such as DV01/PV01, CS01, key rate risk, spread risk, curve risk, and trade lifecycle impacts on risk.
• Experience building or using market and trade event replay harnesses for testing and investigation.
• Comfort partnering directly with traders, sales, and desk leads to drive outcomes in fast-moving environments.