At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative software projects and collaborate with a global team of tech experts.
- Company: Join JPMorgan Chase, a leader in financial services with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and opportunities for continuous learning.
- Other info: Dynamic work culture that values curiosity, innovation, and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the finance industry while enhancing your software engineering skills.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in software engineering with Java, and experience in AI-assisted development tools.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
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 Equity Derivatives Group, you will join our agile team creating, transforming, and supporting our trusted market-leading technology products using modern technologies and industry best practices.
You will collaborate with a global team of technologists at all stages of the software development pipeline, creating high-quality software solutions in an environment that encourages curiosity and innovation, grows talent, and applies and sharpens your multi-faceted software engineering skillset. With continuous learning, inclusivity, and developer experience a focus of our work culture, you will work closely with some of the best local and global software engineers, production management teams, traders, sales, Quants, and product owners.
Launch your career at JPMorgan as a software engineer for the Equity Derivatives Group, joining a team tasked with creating and supporting innovative software solutions for our sales and trading platform that advance our industry-leading Equity Derivatives business, supporting our clients in a first-class way.
Job responsibilities:
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
- Collaborate with engineers, product owners, traders, sales, and Quants to develop best-in-class software solutions for our Equity Derivatives platform.
- Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.
- Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation.
- Work within a team of software engineers analyzing and implementing business requirements within an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Work closely with production management applying technical knowledge to support business processes, changes, and end users.
- Lead and contribute to communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
- Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
- Experience with Java/JVM and the Java/JVM ecosystem, Spring Boot framework.
- Experience of TypeScript/React development.
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows.
- Experience with object-oriented design and micro-service architectures and best practices.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Good understanding of software design patterns and clean code practices.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Experience partnering with product and engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience working on financial systems is a plus.
- Experience with finance/derivative products. Knowledge of Convertible Bonds is a plus.
- Experience of publish/subscribe messaging protocols such as Kafka, AMQP, AMPS.
- Experience with C#/WPF desktop application programming.
- Exposure to Relational Database Management Systems (Sybase).
- Experience of Cloud technologies.
- Exceptional client relationship skills including the ability to discover true requirements underlying feature requests.
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals, and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.
Lead Software Engineer - JAVA - Equities - Vice President employer: JP Morgan Chase
At J.P. Morgan, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, particularly within our Global Financial Crimes Compliance team in EMEA. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion fosters a collaborative work culture where employees are empowered to grow and develop their skills in a dynamic environment. With access to comprehensive training and the opportunity to engage with a wide range of financial services, you will find meaningful and rewarding career advancement in a company that values your contributions.
