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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Digital Markets Execution Technology 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. You will execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role. You must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist with demonstrated leadership, committed to continuous learning and improvement. 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
- Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering team (Java backend and React frontend); drive delivery predictability and quality.
- Partner with Product and Delivery to shape roadmaps, prioritize work, manage dependencies, and de-risk releases.
- Own the platform’s long-term technical vision and architectural runway; set guardrails, integration contracts, versioning, and deprecation paths.
- Establish and meet reliability goals; implement observability and resilience patterns.
- 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.
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews; reduce MTTR, lower change failure rate, and elevate production readiness.
- Maintain secure-by-default practices (authentication/authorization, secrets management, dependency hygiene) and uphold risk and controls.
- Remain hands-on: architect and implement high-performance Java services; perform profiling/tuning; collaborate with React developers on API design and backward-compatible rollout strategies.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Excellent understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals, concurrency, memory management, and object-oriented programming paradigms with hands-on experience with Spring and server-side frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot) and strong API design skills.
- Experience building high-performance, latency-sensitive Java applications.
- Proven partnership with Product, Delivery/Program, and business stakeholders; converting business requirements into technical roadmaps, OKRs, and measurable deliverables.
- 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 considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
- Experience owning the evolution and stability of mission-critical platforms: architectural modernization, operability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Clear understanding of messaging technologies and computer networks; familiarity with FIX and Solace.
- Experience maintaining and troubleshooting software in Linux environments, along with experience in microservices deployment topologies on Kubernetes.
- Test-driven development using modern source control and continuous integration; strong CI/CD and release governance.
- Experience working with globally distributed engineers; strong communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated experience leading an engineering team; mentoring, coaching, and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture.
- Familiarity with Python and React.
- Familiarity with investment banking, fintech, financial markets or CIB Markets.
- Experience as senior techno manager
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong proficiency with Java 17+ including concurrency, memory management, and OOP
- Hands-on experience with Spring and Spring Boot
- Experience building high-performance, latency-sensitive Java applications
- Strong API design skills and microservices architecture experience
- Experience with Kubernetes and microservices deployment topologies
- Experience maintaining and troubleshooting software in Linux environments
- Test-driven development, modern source control, and strong CI/CD and release governance
- Clear understanding of messaging technologies and computer networks; familiarity with FIX and Solace
- Proven partnership with Product, Delivery/Program, and business stakeholders to convert requirements into roadmaps and deliverables
- Experience owning evolution and stability of mission-critical platforms (operability, performance, cost-effectiveness)
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and establishing validation standards
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, and secure handling in engineering workflows
- Experience working with globally distributed engineers and strong communication skills
- Demonstrated experience leading an engineering team; mentoring and fostering a high-performing culture
- Familiarity with Python
- Familiarity with React
- Familiarity with investment banking, fintech, financial markets or CIB Markets
- Experience as senior techno manager
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage are comprehensive, with on-site clinics, preventive care, and specialized supports such as maternity nurse guidance and fertility treatments. Wellness activities can help offset copays and out-of-pocket costs, reinforcing the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching and additional automatic pay credits reflect strong employer-backed retirement savings. An employee stock purchase plan and related financial programs further bolster long-term financial support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick time, holidays, and generous parental leave are provided alongside family medical leave and adoption/fertility assistance. Additional programs like caregiver support and volunteer time off expand the breadth of time-away options.
JPMorganChase Insights
What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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