Principal Software Engineer, Equity Derivatives Systematic Trading

The Equities Data & Analytics Technology organization is looking to build a new team in Singapore.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will function as lead for this new team, responsible for design & development, of an ultramodern Research and Data platform to serve Equity Derivatives Systematic Trading business. Your leadership, technical ability, and problem-solving skills will directly influence business outcomes, priorities, and address a broad range of business growth opportunities using diverse technologies and applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct the evolution and delivery of the Research and Data platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical excellence.
• Partner with Quantitative Researchers and Traders to gather requirements and translate them into robust, scalable solutions for systematic trading, with a focus on Equity Derivatives (Options/Futures).
• Architect and oversee the implementation of data pipelines, research infrastructure, and analytics libraries, leveraging time series databases (KDB or similar), Data Lakes/Lakehouse, and Cloud-based OLAP Databases.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering technical excellence and accountability.
• Ensure platform reliability, operational stability, and adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Drive adoption of modern technology stacks and best practices in software development lifecycle.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including leadership roles.
• Proven experience in designing and delivering scalable, data platforms - both batch based as well as streaming.
• Deep knowledge and experience working with time series databases/analytics
• Current (preferred) or prior experience with KDB+/Q
• Experience with modern data stack - Data Lakes/Lakehouse architectures and OLAP
• Design & Development of large, commercial grade python applications
• Knowledge of Equities or Futures/Options Tradingtechnology having worked in a Front office environment
• Experience collaborating with seniorstakeholders in Trading, Quant Research and Technology
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment that carries ambiguity, collaborate across multiple teams and drive consensus.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency in KDB/q for analytics
• Knowledge of Equity Options risk/pricing/market structure
• Use of LLMs in search and/or analytics driven user workflows, familiarity with prompt and context engineering
• Working knowledge of modern OLAP databases (e.g., AWS Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Experience with design and implementation of apps in public cloud environments - AWS (preferable), Azure, GCP

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.

Client-provided location(s): Singapore

Job ID: JPMorgan-210716067

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-24T19:02:38