Senior Associate Java Software Engineer

Job Description

Play a vital role in shaping the future of an iconic company and make a direct impact in a dynamic environment designed for top achievers.

As a Senior Associate Software Engineer within the Exotic Equity Derivative Sales and Trading Platform team, you will help promote the delivery of a best-in-class platform that provides intra-day pricing, workflow, hedge execution, and client connectivity for a wide range of complex financial products. You will combine strong hands-on development skills with involvement in technical design and architecture decisions, drawing on your deep experience. You will promote the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements gathering to design, development, testing, deployment, and support. You should be passionate about working in a fast-moving environment, collaborating across a global team of multiple disciplines, and engaging in an agile development process. You should be excited about working with new technologies and continually learning and evolving your skillset.

Job Responsibilities

• Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.
• Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
• Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.
• End-to-end ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
• Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems.
• Ensure technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable.
• Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
• Provide 3rd Level production support - analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics or other technical major.
• Over 5 years' experience in application development with recent hands-on responsibilities.
• Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience, and a range of different backgrounds and skillsets.
• Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17.
• Strong experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, REST based services, etc.
• Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, tuning, etc.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs
• Experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products.
• Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.