We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Electronic Trading Technology team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
• Design, develop, and enhance low-latency, high-throughput Java-based trading applications supporting electronic execution and market connectivity
• Build and maintain FIX-based connectivity, order routing, pricing, and market data components
• Own delivery of complex features end-to-end, from requirements analysis through production deployment
• Partner with Trading, Product and Operations teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions
• Ensure high availability, resiliency, and scalability of mission-critical trading systems
• Lead code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, and contribute to platform architecture decisions
• Participate in production support, incident management, and root-cause analysis for trading systems
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to raising the overall engineering bar within the team
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, primarily in Core Java
• Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and JVM internals
• Experience building low-latency or high-performance distributed systems
• Good experience with FIX protocol and electronic trading workflows (order lifecycle, executions, market data)
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix environments, scripting, and troubleshooting production issues
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure in a trading environment
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with global stakeholders
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Experience in Electronic Trading within Equities, F&O, FX, or Rates
• Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch) and cloud-native design patterns
• Familiarity with microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and messaging platforms (Kafka, Solace, JMS)
• Exposure to AI/ML techniques applied to trading, monitoring, anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, or operational intelligence
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and container platforms
• Understanding of market structure, exchanges, and regulatory considerations
