What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer- Low Latency Trading position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Low Latency trading group, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Work directly with Lines of Business to understand and address their needs and challenges within the compute space within a low-latency Electronic Trading environment
- Direct the strategies for server hardware platform, server/OS tuning and automation, and infrastructure application lifecycle
- Design Authority for the compute infrastructure application stack, including build and configuration management, and log/metric aggregation
- Interface with hardware and software vendors on product roadmaps and to establish the next generation of Electronic Trading Platform infrastructure
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 7 years experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Understanding of IPv4 networking, including OSI model, unicast/broadcast/multicast, routing, and network segregation mechanisms
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Understanding of IPv4 networking, including OSI model, unicast/broadcast/multicast, routing, and network segregation mechanisms
- Extensive experience with Configuration Management, preferably Chef or Ansible