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**Lead Software Engineer - Backend Java, Markets Tech | JPMorgan Chase, Jersey City, NJ** Lead a cross-functional agile team in enhancing, building, and delivering market-leading tech products. As the Lead Software Engineer, you'll drive critical backend Java (Spring Boot) solutions for equities, securities lending, and clearing platforms. You'll integrate AI/ML and GenAI at scale, optimize software quality, and ensure operational stability. Key responsibilities include: - Developing and reviewing secure, high-quality production code across distributed systems and microservices architectures. - Building and integrating AI/ML/GenAI capabilities, including LLMs, RAG, and vector databases, into production platforms. - Leading architecture and design decisions, driving platform modernization, and seeking opportunities to automate recurring issues. - Collaborating with business, product, and operations teams to transform market tech requirements into scalable technical solutions. - Guiding team adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and ensuring robust software delivery. To excel in this role, you'll bring 5+ years of software engineering experience, expertise in Java and Spring Boot, knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, and proficiency in CI/CD pipelines. Experience with AI/ML integration, cloud-native development, and familiarity with markets tech is preferred. Demonstrate strong problem-solving, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills to thrive in this dynamic, complex environment.
- Compensation
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- City
- Jersey City
- Country
- United States
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Full Job Description
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
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 Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, 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 delivering critical technology solutions supporting the Equities Broker Dealer and Prime Finance platform, including securities lending, trade lifecycle, and clearing & settlement capabilities, in alignment with the firms business objectives. You will also integrate AI/ML and GenAI capabilities into core platforms in a way that is secure, governable, and operable at enterprise scale.
Job Responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to solve complex problems and deliver scalable solutions across distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Develops secure, high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others to ensure engineering excellence
- Build and integrate AI/ML and GenAI into production platformsLLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and MLOps for lifecycle management, monitoring, and governance.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability, resiliency, and performance of applications
- Drives architecture and design decisions influencing system scalability, performance, and long-term platform evolution
- Leads evaluation sessions with internal teams and stakeholders to assess architectural designs and ensure alignment with enterprise technology strategies
- Contributes to platform modernization through adoption of cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices-based architectures
- Partners with business, product, and operations teams to translate Prime Finance and Broker Dealer requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Ensures robust delivery across environments with strong focus on SDLC, testing (unit, SIT, UAT), and production stability
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in large-scale enterprise environments
- Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Boot and REST APIs programming language within microservices in a distributed systems architecture
- Strong experience withRelational databases (Oracle/DB2) and/or NoSQL (MongoDB) and CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and automation practices
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills
- Demonstrated proficiency in building high-volume, low-latency, mission-critical financial systems
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML and GenAI into enterprise applications, including LLMs, RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector stores/databases, model evaluation, and production monitoring (MLOps).
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
- Practical experience working across cross-functional teams in complex enterprise organizations
Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities
- Cloud-native development (AWS or equivalent)
- Exposure to Prime Finance, Securities Lending, or Broker Dealer platforms
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ) and messaging systems
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies (React, UI frameworks)
- Exposure to domain-driven design, full-stack development, and modern architectural patterns
- Experience with observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
- Interest in adopting emerging technologies (AI-assisted development, automation, advanced analytics)
Hands-on technical lead utilizing backend java on spring boot.




