Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot
JPMorgan Chase · Posted Oct 15
Global banking, investment, credit card, mortgage, and asset management services
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About the role
The Digital Markets Execution Technology team within JPMorganChase's Commercial & Investment Bank builds and delivers trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way, working in agile teams across the firm's business objectives. The role is a core technical contributor position spanning Java backend services and React frontend, with responsibility for architecture, reliability, and delivery across mission-critical trading platforms. This Lead Software Engineer leads a cross-functional team, owns the platform's technical vision and architectural runway, and remains hands-on implementing high-performance Java services.
What you will do
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
- 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
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest, largest, and most diversified financial services institutions in the world. Operating globally through the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, the firm provides a comprehensive range of financial solutions including investment banking, consumer and commercial banking, transaction processing, and asset management. Serving millions of consumers and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients, the company combines deep market expertise with extensive technological investments.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 320000+ employees
- Founded
- 1799
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Global Chief Information Officer
CEO, Asset & Wealth Management
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