KDB - Senior Lead Software Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank in Electronic Trading Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* 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...