Lead Software Engineer, C++, Electronic Trading Technology

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As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Bank, specifically in the Electronic Trading Technology division, your role will be pivotal in an agile team. You will be tasked with enhancing, architecting, and delivering high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a significant technical contributor, your responsibilities will encompass developing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains within various business functions, all aimed at bolstering the firm's business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality scripts and code modifications to support the application
• Execute and automate the release process and manage changes for applications and environments.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle practices.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, platform, and application subject matter experts to promote reliability through communication and sharing best practices.
• Investigate issues reported by Production Management.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in engineering concepts with 10+ years of applied experience.
• Proficiency in C++ development
• Experienced in equities trading product
• Ability to independently address design and functionality problems with minimal oversight, managing tasks from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
• Proficient with configuration management, build tools, and continuous integration environments such as Jenkins.
• Experience in identifying problem or opportunity areas, developing and implementing necessary fixes and changes, and championing new technologies/processes from design to production.
• Expertise in implementing and managing high-availability infrastructure solutions with automatic failover, and designing, building, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Effective collaboration with teams such as Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Lead Software Engineers, and experience in mentoring and guiding team members constructively across various disciplines.
• Demonstrated proficiency in application development and support for associated infrastructure, with experience primarily in trading-based applications in Linux.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Knowledge of electronic trading and equities, futures, and options exchange connectivity in global markets is desirable.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.