Lead Software Engineer - Java / Blockchain / Digital Assets

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 JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management, Digital Assets 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.

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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



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


* Design and develop scalable, secure services utilizing Java, Spring Boot, and TDD


* Collaborate with platform teams to enhance developer experience, toolchains, and cloud-hosted blockchain services.3


* Work closely with Product, Operations, and Core Blockchain teams to innovate and execute transformative blockchain use cases.


* Strong object-oriented programming language background in Java or more of the following languages: Go, Rust or JavaScript


* Proficiency with enterprise development toolchains: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing


* Demonstrable practical cloud native experience, in particular AWS and Kubernetes.


* Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


* Proven track record delivering complex software projects into production


* Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills; ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Hands-on knowledge of end-2-end development in web3 ecosystem - such as smart contract development, deployment, interaction with RPC providers, integrating with key management systems is a plus


* Exposure to building on public or permissioned blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum/EVM, Hyperledger, Solana, Polkad...