Senior Performance Engineer

When you mentor and advise multiple technical teams and move financial technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. You were made for this. 

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector Infrastructure Platforms (IP) organization,you provide expertise and engineering excellence in the software development life cycle to ensure that applications, hardware, and systems are optimized for performance and user experience. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm’s business objectives. Use your passion to solve customer challenges while bringing down the total cost of ownership.

Job responsibilities

• Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Understand the wide variety of internal & external products across compute, storage, network, database, and middleware to identify bottlenecks in architecture, design, and code.
• Monitor and collect performance statistics and analyze product performance and scalability across a variety of hardware, software, and configurations.
• Anticipate and Identify issues - Performance Engineers look for potential problems that could negatively impact performance and work to eliminate or mitigate them.
• Plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons.  
• Design, develop and implement tools to automate performance measurement and analysis.
• Develop process to track ROI and application TCO.
• Profile application performance and recommend appropriate hardware solutions for various application profiles.
• Use a variety of tools and programs to test and analyze code, as an expert in designing, running, and interpreting test results.
• Act as performance advisors within teams to find the best way to scale infrastructure ensuring that performance considerations are integrated into development practices.
• Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience working with modern private & public cloud infrastructure platforms. 
• Hands-on experience in performance troubleshooting skills
  • Optimize software solutions for execution speed, memory efficiency and communication latency.
  • Experienced in both Linux and Windows operating systems, a broad variety of databases, and infrastructure across compute, network and storage.
• Strong communication skills with ability to present, and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives. Experience in influencing engineers and leaders. Benchmark performance metrics for any given business case.
• Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Infrastructure Architecture designs.
• Direct experience in Performance Engineering.
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practice.
• Published research papers, industry articles, and product performance technical papers.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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