JPMorganChase · 2 days ago
KDB - Senior Lead Software Engineer
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$171K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expJPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer, you will enhance, build, and deliver market-leading technology products in Electronic Trading Technology, driving significant business impact through your technical expertise and problem-solving skills.
Asset ManagementBankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
Doing core development and delivery of KDB based systems, including framework development
Leads team members via book of work management. Improve team through SDLC, testing and continuous improvement of coding standards
Develops scalable real-time processing solutions using agile methodology
Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Advanced in one or more programming language(s) KDB, Q language
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
Development lead and mentoring experience: requirements capture, task decomposition, time and effort estimation, delivery planning, testing, user acceptance testing
Deep understanding of KDB technology and Q language. Solid professional experience using KDB
Deep understanding of KDB+tick design and data organization, performance implications of different approaches
Practical experience developing/running large datasets and optimizing query performance
Practical experience scaling and load-balancing of KDB applications. Practical experience building resilient and high-availability KDB applications
Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred
Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms
AWS Experience
Experience in Terraform and Kubernetes from managing a Production Plant in Public Cloud
Experience other languages e.g. Python/C/C++/Java
Benefits
Comprehensive health care coverage
On-site health and wellness centers
A retirement savings plan
Backup childcare
Tuition reimbursement
Mental health support
Financial coaching
Company
JPMorganChase
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Allison Beer
CEO of Card Services and Connected Commerce
Dan Mendelson
CEO, Morgan Health
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