Job Description

Join us to shape the future of trade processing technology and accelerate your career growth. You’ll collaborate with talented professionals in a dynamic, agile environment where your ideas and expertise are valued. We empower you to deliver impactful solutions and foster a culture of inclusion, opportunity, and respect. At JPMorganChase, you’ll have the chance to work with leading-edge technologies and make a real difference. Take the next step in your career with us.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase in Investment Banking, you will play a pivotal role within our agile team, enhancing and migrating our trade processing platform to a cloud-native code-base. You will deliver secure, stable, and scalable technology products that support our business objectives. You’ll contribute your technical expertise across multiple areas, collaborating with peers and stakeholders to drive innovation. Your work will directly impact the reliability and performance of our systems, helping us maintain our position as a market leader.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to solve complex problems
• Create secure, high-quality production code and maintain efficient algorithms
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring alignment with design constraints
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize data to develop visualizations and reporting for continuous improvement
• Identify hidden problems and patterns in data to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture
• Identify and automate remediation of recurring issues to enhance operational stability
• Lead communities of practice to promote awareness and adoption of new technologies
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
• Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Proficiency in Java 17 and relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• Experience with event-driven development, Kafka, and messaging systems like JMS
• Strong background in developing microservices architecture within globally distributed teams
• Effective communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with AWS ecosystem and migrating applications to cloud-native environments
• Knowledge of financial services industry IT systems
• Ability to contribute to coding, code reviews, and technical delivery while collaborating with management and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience leading large-scale cloud migration projects
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and automation tools
• Exposure to containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of regulatory requirements in financial services
• Experience mentoring and developing junior engineers
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development

If you’re ready to make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to join our team at JPMorganChase.

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.