Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer- Low Latency Trading

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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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Understanding of IPv4 networking, including OSI model, unicast/broadcast/multicast, routing, and network segregation mechanisms

• Extensive experience with Configuration Management, preferably Chef or Ansible