
Lead Software Engineer - Java
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 17 days ago
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Lead Software Engineer within JPMorgan Chase's Prime Finance Technology, based in Jersey City, responsible for designing, building, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable production software as part of an agile team. The role involves hands-on development, code review, troubleshooting, automation, and driving CI/CD and resilience practices. The engineer will evaluate vendor and architectural options, lead communities of practice, and improve operational stability through automation and remediation. Requires strong software engineering experience (5+ years), cloud-native familiarity, and domain knowledge of financial services and securities/cash processing.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Jersey City
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
AAs a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Prime Finance Technology, 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.
Job responsibilities
- 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
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 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)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Exposure in financial services, with focus on cash and securities processing
- Practical experience with database technologies such as DB2, Oracle, and MongoDB
- Hands‑on experience with enterprise messaging, IBM MQ and Apache Kafka.




