Lead Software Engineer - Java, C++, Trading, Pricing and Analytics

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Securitized Products Data Platform 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. 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.

SPG (Securitized Products Group) technology team consists of professional technologists tasked with a mission of creating innovative solutions for a $10

Tn+ business that originates, finances, securitizes and trades mortgages (both commercial and residential) as well as other asset‑backed debt (e.g. auto loans), and invests in renewable energy and affordable housing to generate tax benefits for the bank. We are looking for an experienced software to join our mortgage pricing and analytics framework to advance modernization and re‑engineering efforts within current platform, so that it can run and scale sustainable both on‑prem and in the cloud.

The platform consists of different types of analytics, models, workflow, and UI components that are used by the sales and trading desks.

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert and owner in one or more areas of focus
• Drives engineering efforts for platform’s cloud enablement journey
• Delivers monitoring and telemetry solutions for key areas of large, distributed platform
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Identifies and automate solutions for recurring issues to enhance the operational stability of software applications and systems
• Guides team members through effective management of the book of work, improving team performance through SDLC, testing, and continuous enhancement of coding standards
• Collaborates with senior technology and business stakeholders to deliver robust software solutions to the business.

• 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 language(s) - Java/Python/C++
• Expertise in low latency application development, and Core Java concepts, Object Oriented programming
• Proficient in Linux, REST API, Spring Boot, Node.js, SQL, and algorithms
• Experience with large-scale distributed applications in mission‑critical environments
• Hands‑on experience in system design, application development, testing, and ensuring operational stability. Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery practices
• Expertise in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Ability to build and operate a diverse, inclusive and collaborative environment

• Experience in fixed income business, especially mortgage‑backed securities would be a plus
• Experience with AWS would be beneficial
• Experience in real‑time, near real‑time analytics systems would be a plus
• Experience mentoring and leading software engineers would be useful