Join us to shape the future of electronic trading technology, where your expertise in C++ and hardware acceleration will make a global impact. You’ll collaborate with talented engineers to deliver market-leading solutions that power high-speed trading across global markets. We value creativity, technical excellence, and a passion for continuous improvement. At JPMorganChase, you’ll find opportunities for career growth, skill development, and meaningful contributions. Be part of a team that thrives on solving complex challenges and advancing industry standards.

As an Ultra Low Latency C++ Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase in the Electronic Trading Technology team, you will design, build, and operate market gateway solutions with hardware FPGA acceleration. You will drive the software development lifecycle, focusing on stability, latency optimization, and continuous improvement. You’ll partner with hardware engineering teams to integrate FPGA pipelines with our C++ software stack, ensuring high reliability and operational excellence. Your work will directly impact trading connectivity and risk management applications used by clients and internal businesses. You’ll help foster a collaborative, innovative team culture.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions across design, development, and troubleshooting.
• Design, develop, and test reliable, high-quality C++ code for trading connectivity and risk controls on Unix/Linux platforms.
• Implement end-to-end low latency client setups, including production rollout and post-release validation.
• Automate remediation for recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Establish and execute test strategies for latency, throughput, and resiliency.
• Lead the development of market access trading and risk management modules.
• Participate across the software development lifecycle of electronic trading services.
• Collaborate with Application Development, Business Analysts, and Operations teams.
• Integrate FPGA pipelines with C++ software for deterministic performance.
• Ensure observability and operational excellence in production systems.
• Drive continuous improvement in latency optimization and system stability.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Proficiency in modern C++ on Unix/Linux with strong multithreading and object-oriented design fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in production environments.
• Scripting skills (Python, Perl, Shell) for automating development, testing, and operational tasks.
• Advanced understanding of Agile methodologies, including CI/CD, resiliency, and security.
• Ability to review and debug code written by others.
• Knowledge of low-level TCP/IP and network stack behavior.
• Comfort working closely with infrastructure and networking teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• Excellent understanding of software-hardware interaction.
• Commitment to high reliability and throughput in production software.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Low latency design and development experience in C/C++, including DMA or exchange connectivity and pre-trade risk systems.
• FPGA exposure for financial industry applications.
• Embedded software and kernel driver development for FPGAs and related systems.
• Experience with PCI Express, TCP/IP sockets, and L1/L3 switches.
• Integrating C++, Verilog, and VHDL solutions in Linux environments.
• Implementing and certifying exchange connectivity using FIX, SBE, and native binary protocols with a focus on low latency order entry.
• Creating and automating test strategies for functional and non-functional requirements in production-like environments.

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J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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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.

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