Job Description

Join us and shape the future of financial technology with Prime Finance Services. You’ll have the opportunity to push boundaries, deliver market-leading solutions, and grow your career in a fast-paced, global environment. Collaborate with top technologists across Hong Kong, Singapore, Glasgow, and Mumbai. We value creativity, inclusion, and technical excellence—your ideas and expertise will make a real impact. If you’re ready to lead and innovate, this is your chance to thrive.

As a Lead Software Engineer in Prime Finance Services, you will architect and deliver cutting-edge, AI-driven workflows and solutions that add value to our business. You’ll work as part of a global team, enhancing and building trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Your role will focus on transforming our equity finance platform, partnering with diverse teams to drive business success. You will foster a culture of creativity and inclusion while tackling large-scale engineering challenges.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Lead with an AI-driven approach in daily tasks
• Spearhead the design and development of real-time, mission-critical trading platforms using Java
• Tackle large-scale engineering challenges with technologies like Kafka
• Innovate, troubleshoot, and optimize for performance and stability
• Inspire and foster a culture of creativity, inclusion, and technical excellence
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions
• Drive system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Optimize low latency applications through testing and debugging
• Lead and contribute to all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Promote advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Expertise in GenAI usage
• Experience transforming Software Engineering with an AI-first approach
• Understanding of Prime Finance business, especially Securities Lending
• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
• Experience developing event-driven and batch Java applications in financial services
• Proficiency in Java/Spring, data structures, and performance tuning
• Solid experience with Kafka
• Proficiency in testing and debugging low latency applications
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
• Open-mindedness and willingness to learn
• Ability to work collaboratively in large teams
• Proficiency in software applications and technical processes within technical disciplines (cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• UI development experience in React JS

Why Join Us?
Be part of a global team that values creativity, inclusion, and technical excellence. You’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, grow your skills, and collaborate with talented professionals across the world.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.