JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA Hiring for Associate Java Software Engineer – Equity Derivatives Group Job at London, England Full Time

You will join and collaborate with a global team of technologists at all stages of the software development pipeline, creating high quality software solutions in an environment that encourages curiosity and innovation, grows talent, and applies and sharpens your multi-faceted software engineering skillset.

With continuous learning, inclusivity, and developer experience a focus of our work culture you will work with closely with local and global software engineers, production management teams, marketers, traders, and researchers as well as find opportunities to enhance your skillset and interests by taking advantage of internal and external training opportunities, mentors, joining interest groups and communities, and learning from other leaders at the firm and industry

The role offers a range of interesting opportunities:

• Close collaboration with a number of teams including Trading, Quantitative Research, as well as other technology teams for building new capability into the system
• Taking part in a new strategy to automate Front Office processes and functions using technology solutions
• An agile and delivery focused team working with global and local counterparts leveraging best in class technologies to solve business problems
• Opportunity to propose and explore new solutions that can give the firm an edge against competition
• Various business transformation projects across market/trade/client analytics, marking/publishing

Essential skills:

• Solid experience with JAVA.
• Experience with development, deployment and maintenance of commercial service oriented application(s)
• Disciplined approach to code management, testing and deployment practices and high quality delivery
• Understanding of how to effectively utilize unit testing
• Great problem solving skills for problems with a mathematical/technological background
• Good communication skills especially when describing problems and explaining solutions
• Ability to work in a fast paced team oriented environment
• Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across EMEA, APAC etc.) while influencing and contributing towards the development of the global platform
• Experience of full project lifecycle, breaking requirements down into technical deliverables and effort estimation

Desirable (but not essential):

• Business knowledge of simple derivative products (vanilla futures, equity swaps, strategies involving vanillas): how these are used, how to evaluate risk
• Unix or Linux knowledge
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and deployment processes
• Experience with service oriented platforms, and a good understanding of current generation open source frameworks

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.