Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, 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

• Design and implement an Option Market Making and Volatility execution platform
• Develop and optimize performance-critical C++ components across the trading stack
• Build low-latency, high-throughput systems handling real-time market data and order flow
• Design and implement trading controls and risk management safeguards within the execution platform
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to translate trading strategies into production systems
• Write robust, well-tested code for systems operating in high-availability production environments
• Contribute to architecture decisions and drive technical improvements across the platform
• Champion firmwide engineering best practices, modern development methodologies, and continuous integration
• Mentor team members and foster a culture of technical excellence

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years building trading systems
• Expert-level proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20) with demonstrated experience in performance-critical systems
• Strong knowledge of low-latency optimization techniques including memory management, data structure design, and Linux systems programming
• Experience with TCP/UDP socket programming and real-time messaging architectures
• Ability to design and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems with high-availability requirements
• Proficient with configuration management, build tools, and continuous integration environments
• Effective collaboration across global engineering teams and ability to work directly with trading desks and quantitative researchers

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Knowledge of options, derivatives pricing, Greeks, and market making strategies
• Experience building market data feed handlers or order management systems
• Familiarity with exchange connectivity protocols (FIX, native binary protocols)
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers in a trading technology environment

About Us

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.