Lead Software Engineer JAVA Backend - Morgan Money

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.​

Morgan Money has revolutionized liquidity trading across the firm serving our corporate clients in all regions to have next generation trading capabilities at their fingertips.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), we are increasing our presence in Columbus and this is an opportunity to play a part in one of the most exciting technology agendas in the firm right now, as we look to grow the solution further by several flag-ship technology innovation streams.  

Job responsibilities

• Confidently collaborates directly with Investment Teams, Traders, and Portfolio Managers, effectively bridging communication without relying on business analysts or Project Managers.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, contributing to one of Asset Management’s most high-profile platforms.
• Operates as part of an agile team, regularly deploying software updates to production and adjusting to the dynamic needs and scale of the business.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• 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
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. 
• Have excellent programming experience in Core Java
• Implement TDD and BDD techniques, with a focus on leveraging mocking frameworks for effective testing
• Demonstrate an understanding of IoC frameworks in Java, such as native Spring 
• Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace or Ignite
• Strong grasp of engineering principles, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.)
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Have exposure to working with trading, FIX engines or related technologies.
• Experience in smart contracts, Ethereum and digital wallets
• Exposure to cloud technologies and certification
• Python skills are highly desirable