Job description

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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

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