Lead Software Engineer - DevOps with Equities Electronic Trading
JPMorgan Chase8 hours ago
Base Salary
$138k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide daily production support for electronic trading platforms, including FIX sessions, connectivity health, and order and trade workflow stability.
- Monitor latency, errors, throughput, and availability using Grafana dashboards and alerting.
- Lead incident triage, service restoration, stakeholder communications, root cause analysis, and post-incident follow-up.
- Implement durable remediation through runbook improvements, alert tuning, and operational automation.
- Develop Python scripts and tools for health checks, operational workflows, reporting, and environment validation.
- Operate and support Kafka on AWS, including Amazon MSK, topic and partition design, consumer groups, throughput and latency tuning, security permissions, and troubleshooting.
- Troubleshoot Linux systems using logs, process and resource diagnostics, and network-level checks.
- Collaborate with development teams to investigate trading components implemented in C++.
- Lead adoption of approved AI-assisted engineering practices while establishing standards for secure coding, peer review, automated testing, and validation of AI outputs.
Requirements
- Formal software engineering training or certification and at least 5 years of applied experience.
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, frameworks, and tools, including Python, C++, Bash scripting, or Grafana.
- Demonstrated DevOps or SRE experience in a mission-critical, low-latency environment with accountability for uptime and incident execution.
- Practical understanding of the FIX protocol and strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with automation and continuous delivery methods, application resiliency, security, and software development lifecycle tools.
- Ability to collaborate across trading, operations, and engineering teams and communicate clearly during incidents.
- Experience leading the effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating their correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, and compliant adoption in engineering workflows.
- Preferred experience with electronic or equities trading, order lifecycles, incident management, runbooks, post-incident reviews, alert quality, operational readiness, C++ investigation, ATLAS or similar tooling, and TCP/IP troubleshooting.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skills, and location, plus potential commission or discretionary incentive compensation.
- Comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Equal opportunity employment with reasonable accommodation support.
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.