Senior Vice President, Software Engineering — Trading Tech
J.P. Morgan
Join us at the forefront of trading technology innovation. You’ll have the opportunity to architect and deliver high-quality applications, mentor talented engineers, and drive the adoption of modern design patterns. We offer a collaborative environment where your technical leadership and hands-on contributions make a real impact. At JPMorganChase, you can grow your career while helping shape the success of our trading platform.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Multi-Asset Trading Platform team, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable applications that support multi-asset trading. You will architect and operate systems using modern technologies, guide technical decisions, and foster a growth-oriented culture. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, secure, and high-performing solutions, directly impacting our trading technology.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead and actively contribute to the design, development, and deployment of high-quality applications aligned to business and functional requirements.
- Build Java-based microservices using streaming, non-blocking, and reactive programming paradigms.
- Architect and operate scalable systems leveraging Kafka, IBM MQ, Kubernetes, Redis, Amazon MSK, and AWS services.
- Drive adoption of domain-driven design and ensure architectures support multi-asset trading capabilities.
- Define and maintain technical documentation and service APIs, ensuring robust logging, auditability, security, and monitoring.
- Participate in API design sessions and guide selection of design patterns and integration approaches.
- Lead and participate in code reviews, enforcing high maintainability and quality through TDD/BDD practices.
- Validate service scalability and resilience using mock testing frameworks and performance testing strategies.
- Mentor and develop junior engineers, fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented culture.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Java with a strong willingness to code hands-on.
- Experience delivering distributed systems handling large data volumes and real-time distribution.
- Strong experience with CI/CD, DevOps toolchains, and agile, test-driven delivery.
- Hands-on experience with caching technologies such as Redis, GemFire, or Apache Ignite.
- Hands-on experience with messaging and streaming technologies including Kafka and IBM MQ.
- Solid understanding of microservices, REST APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, and event-driven architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineering talent.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience with the Spring ecosystem and AWS cloud services.
- Experience building trading systems; familiarity with FIX protocol is a plus.
- Proven ability to solve complex, mission-critical problems with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
- Continuous learner and early adopter of emerging technologies and practices.
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.
J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.
Shape the future of trading technology by leading and building scalable, high-impact applications on our multi-asset trading platform.
