{"id":2553219,"url":"https://alion.io/job/jpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading","title":"Lead Software Engineer - DevOps with Equities Electronic Trading","company":{"id":257,"name":"JPMorganChase","domain":"jpmorganchase.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/jpmorganchase","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":723,"ghost_share":0.01,"stale_share":0.342,"repost_share":0.087,"time_to_fill_p50_days":8,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Houston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":161000,"max_usd":330000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":546},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":true},{"name":"TCP/IP","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-14T15:59:14Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-14","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T10:56:53Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.\nAs a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking - Markets Tech - Trading / Derivatives Execution Tech team, youare 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.\nThis position will support the reliability, performance, and operational integrity of electronic and equities trading systems, with a specific focus on FIX protocol connectivity. This role is hands-on and operations-oriented, partnering closely with trading, technology, and development teams to ensure stable order flow, rapid incident response, and disciplined change execution. The position emphasizes Python automation, Linux troubleshooting, and Grafana-based observability, with C++ exposure used primarily to investigate issues and collaborate effectively with Application\nJob responsibilities\nExecutes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems\nProvide daily production support for electronic trading platforms, including FIX sessions/protocols, connectivity health, and order/trade workflow stability\nMonitor system health and trading-impacting signals using Grafana dashboards and alerting to improve visibility with latency, errors, throughput, and availability \nLead incident triage and restoration activities during service degradation, including structured troubleshooting, stakeholder communications, and post-incident follow-up\nPerform root cause analysis on recurring issues and implement durable remediation, including runbook improvements, alert tuning, and operational automation\nDevelops secure high-quality production code with reviewing and debugging code by using Python scripts and tools for health checks, operational workflows, reporting, and environment validation (per user-provided role intent)\nOperate and support Kafka on AWS (e.g., Amazon MSK or equivalent) with topic/partition design, consumer groups, throughput/latency tuning, security/permissions, and production troubleshooting\nDrives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review / refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team\nApplies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automaton capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation\nTroubleshoot Linux based systems using logs, process and resource diagnostics, and network-level checks relevant to connectivity and application behavior (per user-provided role intent)\nPartner with development teams to investigate complex issues in trading components with read logs, traces, diagnostic output and the ability to interpret and discuss findings in contexts where components are implemented in C++\nRequired qualifications, capabilities, and skills\nFormal training or certification on Software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience \nAdvanced in one or more programming language(s), framework(s) and tools (e.g., Python, C++, Bash Scripting, Grafana, etc.)\nDemonstrated experience in DevOps and or SRE in a mission-critical, low-latency environment, with accountability for uptime and incident execution\nPractical understanding of the FIX protocol\nStrong Linux troubleshooting capability, including log analysis, process/resource diagnostics, and command-line proficiency\nAbility to collaborate effectively across trading, operations, and engineering teams, including clear incident communications under time pressure\n\nProficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods, with advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security\nDemonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security\nStrong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices\nDemonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)\nPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills\nKnowledge in electronic trading or equities trading environments, including familiarity with order lifecycle concepts and trading-impacting incident patterns \nExposure to C++ sufficient to assist with investigation (e.g., reading stack traces, understanding logs and component behavior), without being a primary feature developer\nFamiliarity with ATLAS (or similar internal platform/tooling used for production operations/engineering enablement).\nDemonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)\nFamiliarity with incident management disciplines, including runbooks, post-incident reviews, alert quality management, and operational readiness practices\nBasic networking knowledge relevant to troubleshooting connectivity and performance (e.g., TCP/IP behavior, port connectivity, latency sensitivity)","description_format":"text","description_chars":6188,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Asset Management & Funds","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T18:29:34Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 3,429 · green card filings: 933","filings_12m":3429,"filings_prev_12m":3601,"green_card_filings_12m":933,"median_offered_wage_usd":160366,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1686}],"liveness":{"score":73,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.808,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/jpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/jpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T11:39:52Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12889,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":257},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=257"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fjpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fjpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fjpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/jpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fjpmorganchase-lead-software-engineer-devops-with-equities-electronic-trading"}]}