KDB - Senior Lead Software Engineer
On-site · Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Senior Lead Software Engineer responsible for leading core KDB-based development within JPMorgan Chase’s Commercial & Investment Bank Electronic Trading Technology. Drive technical guidance and direction, develop secure, high-quality production code, and deliver scalable real-time processing solutions. Influence product design and operations, mentor team members, and contribute to firmwide engineering frameworks and practices while advancing diversity and inclusion. Emphasis on leading SDLC improvements, automation, and agile delivery; deep expertise in KDB, Q language, and large-data systems, with hands-on experience across cloud-related tooling and modern software disciplines.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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
- Experience with market data venue and vendor data platforms (preferred)
- AWS Experience (preferred)
- Terraform and Kubernetes experience (preferred)
- Python/C/C++/Java (preferred)
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