Lead Software Engineer - Java / Equities Risk

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - 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.

Drive the delivery of a best in class platform for real-time derivatives pricing, risk management, and streaming position aggregation for a range of complex financial products.

Job responsibilities



* Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems


* Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team


* Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements


* Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.


* Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.


* Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, while ensuring they are robust and supportable


* Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.


* Provides 3rd Level production support to analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system


* Mentors junior Java developers and conduct code and design reviews

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



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


* Advanced hands-on coding experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring JPA/Hibernate, and REST based services


* Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning


* Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.


* Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerati...