FX Algorithmic Trading Developer - Associate

Job description

About the team

FXAlgoEx is J.P. Morgan's premier algorithmic trading platform, offering our clients and traders the ability to place complex trades and access liquidity at all major FX ECNs around the world, including our franchise liquidity. Clients can place orders and receive status updates via the web or mobile using our unique single-dealer platform JPMM, over external Algo aggregators such as Bloomberg, or integrate AlgoEx with in-house solutions, using the industry standard FIX protocol.

The FXAlgoEx team is a dedicated group of strategists and technology professionals that design, build, deploy and support the AlgoEx platform. The team is global with presence in Singapore, London and New York. We work closely with our clients, traders and strategists to manage the entire life cycle of algorithmic product innovation from conception through production deployment. We work with Python, Java, C++, Kdb and LBM to build low-latency trading solutions. We are experts in networking, messaging, data structures, multithreading, concurrency, design patterns and algorithms. We are looking for excellent engineers to join us and help us evolve and make AlgoEx the industry leader in algorithmic execution.

About the role

As a member of the AlgoEx technology team, you will interact with traders and quants to design and develop new algorithmic solutions and work hand in hand with our operate teams to deploy, manage, monitor and maintain these solutions globally. For the motivated candidate, this is an excellent opportunity to work with industry leading technologies, low latency stacks, dedicated hardware and a veteran team of algorithmic traders in a challenging, result oriented environment.

As a developer within the team the successful candidate will:

·  Own the design, development, and testing of particular components within the AlgoEx platform.
·  Work directly with front office trading and sales to analyze requirements and plan future enhancements and new development work.
·  Be a voice of knowledge and experience in their areas of expertise.
·  Be a productive, independent, self-motivated engineer
·  Contribute to the overall architecture of the AlgoEx offering.
·  Provide technical support to the production systems when required.

Desired profile

The successful candidate must demonstrate all of the following skills:

·  Substantial experience with software design, data structures and algorithms.
·  Strong C++ and/or core Java work experience.
·  Competent with developing multithreaded, scalable, concurrent applications.
·  Experience of multi-tier architectures and DBMS platforms.
·  Ability to own multiple streams of work and to organize self and others to deliver in a timely fashion.
·  Effective production support skills
·  Ability to face off to the business
·  Good understanding of performance tuning, message integrity and security related to real-time applications.

The successful candidate will ideally have:

·  Experience of developing with low latency market data and order processing systems.
·  Working experience of agile development methods (using continuous integration tools, automated build processes, test-driven development tools, etc.).
·  Experience of other programming languages, preferably Python.
·  FX market experience.
·  Experience with other order management systems.

About J.P. Morgan's Corporate & Investment Bank
J.P. Morgan's Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $18 trillion of assets under custody and $393 billion in deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. Further information about J.P. Morgan is available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/ .

JPMorgan Chase & Co. offers an exceptional benefits program and a highly competitive compensation package. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.