JPMorgan Software Engineer II - Quant Developer Backend 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

295700145

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Experience in a financial service environment with a focus in front-office applications.
• Good experience in portfolio optimizer related maths especially mixed integer programming (MIP), Quadratic programming concepts.
• Strong JAVA/Python/R/Matlab programming experience is required
• Good understanding in data persistence (SQL or noSQL) data paradigms
• Prior experience developing middleware (MQ, data caching) and core java is required
• Agile development experience or equivalent in fast-paced development environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in using mathematical solver like Gurobi and/or building Portfolio Construction platform using optimizers such as – Barra/ITG /CPLEX optimizers would be a major PLUS.
• Solid financial engineering background is desirable. CFA, FRM, MBA in Finance and/or Financial Engineering degree and/or risk management knowledge is a major plus
• Experience in front-office capital markets/investment management applications desired