Backend Lead Software Engineer - Morgan Money

About the role

Morgan Money has revolutionized liquidity trading across the firm serving our corporate clients in all regions to have next generation trading capabilities at their fingertips.

Job responsibilities

• Confidently collaborates directly with Investment Teams, Traders, and Portfolio Managers, effectively bridging communication without relying on business analysts or Project Managers.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, contributing to one of Asset Management's most high-profile platforms.
• Operates as part of an agile team, regularly deploying software updates to production and adjusting to the dynamic needs and scale of the business.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• 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.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Have excellent programming experience in Core Java.
• Implement TDD and BDD techniques, with a focus on leveraging mocking frameworks for effective testing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of IoC frameworks in Java, such as native Spring or Guice.
• Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace or Ignite.
• Strong grasp of engineering principles, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.).
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Have exposure to working with trading, FIX engines or related technologies.
• Experience in smart contracts, Etherium and digital wallets.
• Exposure to cloud technologies and certification.
• Python skills are highly desirable.

About the team

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.