Lead Software Engineer - FPGA - Markets Technology - Athens

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization, you are 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. The Jisu team in Electronic Trading Technology is looking for an exceptional and experienced FPGA developer to join our ultra-low latency direct market access team. We are a global team with members in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mumbai. Our team has developed in-house ultra-low latency connectivity and risk management applications for both external and internal clients.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes 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
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Develop complex FPGA solutions for Equities trading with focus on massive throughput and ultra-low latency
• Interact with users and external vendors for requirements gathering and procurement
• Partner with internal teams including business, development, quality assurance and operations to deliver reliable, low latency solutions
  
  

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Expert knowledge of FPGA architecture and design in VHDL/Verilog
• High speed/low latency FPGA design
• Development of verification strategies and writing complex test benches
• Excellent understanding of software and hardware interaction
• Complex RTL and system level simulation
• Experience in achieving timing closure in complex designs
• Xilinx/Altera architecture and design experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• C++ and Python experience
• Scripting skills to automate day-to-day development and testing tasks
• Board design experience
• Knowledge of Intel processor architecture and bus interconnect technologies like PCI-E, QPI
• Drivers and Memory Management
  
  

About The Innovation Lab In Athens

We recently moved into our new office in Athens, Greece. This investment is to support our organic growth in the country and to bolster the innovation efforts of our Payments and Markets business globally.

J.P. Morgan first opened its doors in Greece more than five decades ago, and today we provide products and services from across our Investment Banking, Payments and Asset & Wealth Management businesses to a number of local and multinational Greek clients.

Greek male nationals must have completed or have no obligatory military service obligations

About Us

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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

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.