Lead Software Engineer - Java

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Markets & Post Trade Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's business objectives.

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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


* 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in building scalable , server side (backend) systems.


* Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


* Expert-level proficiency in Java (JDK 21+) and Spring Boot (3.5.x).


* Hands-on experience with reactive programming (Spring WebFlux, Project Reactor).


* Strong experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).


* Cloud-native development experience (microservices, containers, CI/CD, cloud platforms).


* Ensure high standards of code quality, automated testing, and continuous integration, with a focus on modern development practices.


* Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills



* Prior experience with enterprise reference data platforms a big plus


* Experience in financial services or other regulated industries.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients un...