Lead Software Engineer - Java

Overview

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Markets & Post Trade Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's business objectives.

• 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
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineeringconcepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in building scalable , server side (backend) systems.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expert-level proficiency in Java (JDK 21+) and Spring Boot (3.5.x).
• Hands-on experience with reactive programming (Spring Web Flux, Project Reactor).
• Strong experience with No
  
  SQL databases (Mongo
  
  DB, Cassandra, Dynamo
  
  DB).
• Cloud-native development experience (microservices, containers, CI/CD, cloud platforms).
• Ensure high standards of code quality, automated testing, and continuous integration, with a focus on modern development practices.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Prior experience with enterprise reference data platforms a big plus
• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries.