Cross Assets Electronic Trading Services (C++/Linux) -Senior Lead eSoftware Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead eSoftware Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Electronic Trading Services 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 significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Provide technical guidance and direction to engineering teams, contractors, and vendors to deliver robust solutions.
• Develop secure, high-quality production C++ code; review and debug code to uphold standards and reliability.
• Influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations to enhance latency, throughput, and stability.
• Serve as a subject matter expert across key areas of electronic trading, architecture, and performance engineering.
• Advocate firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices; elevate craftsmanship within the engineering community.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Advanced C++ expertise, supported by formal training or certification.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in production.
• Proficiency with C++ on Unix/Linux, including performance diagnostics and tooling. Scripting skills to automate development, testing, and operational workflows.
• Strong understanding of software–hardware interaction for low-latency systems.
• Experience creating and automating test strategies and plans for both functional and non-functional requirements, and executing them.
• Depth in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines. Strong CS fundamentals: multithreading, memory management, object-oriented design.
• Collaborative mindset: Work closely with Application Development, Business Analysis, and Operations teams.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and supporting connectivity platform in C/C++.
• Solid working knowledge of FIX and binary protocols, as well as market microstructure.
• Experience with low-latency connectivity to FX, Commodities, Rates, Credits, Futures, and Options markets (such as LME, Eurex, CME).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.