Lead Software Engineer - Java / Equities Risk

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management 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.

Drive the delivery of a best in class platform for real-time derivatives pricing, risk management, and streaming position aggregation for a range of complex financial products.

Job responsibilities



* Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems


* Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team


* Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements


* Takes full ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.


* Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems


* Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, while ensuring they are robust and supportable


* Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.


* Provides 3rd Level production support to analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system


* Mentors junior Java developers and conduct code and design reviews

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


* Expertise in Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17


* Advanced hands-on coding experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring JPA/Hibernate, and REST based services


* Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning


* Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities


* Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs, analyze system performance using tools such as Dynatrace


* Experience with Databases - relational and No-SQL (Sybase, Oracle, Mongo DB)


* Expertise with Messaging Middleware platforms (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS


* Proven experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gr...