Java Senior Lead Software Engineer- Trading Technology

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Java Senior Lead Software Engineer
- Trading Technology at JPMorgan

Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management
- Private Bank, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. Join our award-winning Global Strategic Trading Platform team and play a key role in redefining how portfolios are managed and traded across global markets within J.P

Morgan Private Bank.

• Design and build full-stack solutions in partnership with Portfolio Management and Trading teams and optimize algorithms and workflows to improve trading efficiency
• Deliver robust, high-performance code to cloud environments
• Lead the integration of AI across the software development lifecycle from requirements and architecture through coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Own the technical strategy for a greenfield platform that directly influences investment decisions, order management, and real‑time portfolio analytics and drive key architectural decisions
• Set engineering standards and reference architectures across Java, React, Kafka, Oracle, Aurora, Airflow, and Spark. Guide deployments to both public and private cloud environments
• Develop secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Collaborate with Advisors, Portfolio Managers, and Middle Office teams on the portfolio management process, help shape the end‑to‑end investment process by translating investment intent into automated and scalable workflows, strengthening controls, and improving time‑to‑execution
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
• Lead a team of software engineers, setting technical direction, mentor and learn within a diverse, high‑performing engineering team, and ensuring high‑quality delivery

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming languages including Java
• Experience with Cloud Platforms, Springboot, Microservices
• Experience working in the financial services domain, developing financial services applications and interfacing with line of business stakeholders
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka
• Experience with AI initiatives, integration and tools
• Buy‑side experience (portfolio management, OMS, trade lifecycle/middle office, risk and controls) that helps translate investment intent into compliant, scalable solutions