You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect senior engineering leadership opportunity for you.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate & Investment Bank’s Digital Markets Execution Technology team, you will be pivotal in the creation, design, and execution of sophisticated, latency-sensitive components for the Markets Execute platform. You will lead a cross-functional Java and React engineering team, partner with Product, Delivery, Sales, and Trading, and own the platform’s long-term technical vision, reliability, and scalability.
Job responsibilities
- Executes and oversees end-to-end software solutions, engineering standards, architecture, and technical troubleshooting for mission-critical trading systems.
- Writes secure, high-quality, and testable code in Java; collaborates on React APIs and backward-compatible rollout strategies.
- Designs and builds high-performance, latency-sensitive services with awareness of upstream/downstream systems and cross-asset use cases.
- Applies SDLC toolchain knowledge to improve automation, CI/CD, release governance, and operational readiness.
- Leads technical analysis of client requirements, estimation and planning, code reviews, architecture design sessions, and retrospectives.
- Establishes reliability goals; implements robust observability and resilience patterns; reduces MTTR and change failure rate.
- Leads incident response and post-incident reviews; elevates production stability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Upholds secure-by-default practices (authN/authZ, secrets, dependency hygiene) and risk/control standards.
- Guides platform integration contracts, versioning strategies, and deprecation paths; manages dependencies and de-risks releases.
- Mentors engineers; fosters an inclusive, high-performing team culture aligned to measurable OKRs.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with strong computer science foundations.
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for mission-critical platforms.
- Proven leadership of engineering teams and partnership with Product, Delivery/Program, and business stakeholders.
- Expertise developing, debugging, and maintaining Java applications in large environments; strong API design.
- Deep understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals, concurrency, memory management, and object-oriented design.
- Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle; exposure to Agile methodologies, CI/CD, resiliency, and security.
- Proficiency with Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking/messaging concepts.
- Strong focus on automated testing; experience with TDD/BDD, unit testing, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences; ability to operate in globally distributed teams.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies; experience collaborating with React teams.
- Exposure to messaging systems and market protocols (e.g., MQ/Kafka; familiarity with FIX and Solace).
- Experience with observability stacks and resilience engineering for low-latency trading platforms.
- Familiarity with Python; awareness of investment banking, fintech, or financial markets
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for mission-critical platforms
- Proven leadership of engineering teams and partnership with Product, Delivery/Program, and business stakeholders
- Expertise developing, debugging, and maintaining Java applications in large environments; strong API design
- Deep understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals, concurrency, memory management, and object-oriented design
- Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle; exposure to Agile methodologies, CI/CD, resiliency, and security
- Proficiency with Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking/messaging concepts
- Strong focus on automated testing; experience with TDD/BDD, unit testing, and modern CI/CD practices
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences; ability to operate in globally distributed teams
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies; experience collaborating with React teams
- Exposure to messaging systems and market protocols (e.g., MQ/Kafka; familiarity with FIX and Solace)
- Experience with observability stacks and resilience engineering for low-latency trading platforms
- Familiarity with Python; awareness of investment banking, fintech, or financial markets
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.
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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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