Lead Software Engineer- Java

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Banking, Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management Team, 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.

You will help drive the delivery of a best in class platform that handles real time streaming position and risk management for a wide range of complex financial products.

The individual selected for this role will combine a unique mix of strong hands-on development skill, involvement in technical design and architecture decisions, and ability to draw on deep experience to provide technical leadership and mentoring to a new and growing team of technologists.

Job responsibilities


* Design, develop and maintain high-quality Java applications, ensuring clean, efficient and well-structured code.


* Provide technical leadership to a small team, guiding developers on design, implementation, code quality and best practices while ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.


* Build and optimize low-latency, high-throughput components for equities risk systems, ensuring real-time processing and stable performance during peak market loads.


* Apply object-oriented design principles and industry-standard design patterns to create modular, scalable and maintainable systems.


* Adopt Test-Driven Development (TDD) to deliver reliable, well-tested and production ready code.


* Ensure compliance with coding standards, security guidelines and architectural best practices throughout the development life cycle.


* Implement and support CI/CD pipeline principles, enabling automated build, test and deployment workflows


* Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize application performance, ensuring reliability, scalability and efficient resource utilization.


* Follow Agile principles and actively participate in Scrum ceremonies, supporting iterative and collaborative development.


* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end to end features and resolve technical issues efficiently.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


* Java experience with multi-threaded, high-performance backend development.


* Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Spring Framework, including microservices, REST services and dependency management.


* Ability to lead and mentor a small engineering team in architecture, development and problem-solving.


* Ability to independently design and impl...