Sr Lead Software Engineer - Equities Prime Sec Lending Technology

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. 

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial and Investment Bank, you will play a pivotal role in an agile team, enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact through your contributions.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide regular technical guidance and direction to business and technical teams, including contractors and vendors, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code using Core Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, AWS Cloud, React, and MQ/ Kafka. Review and debug code written by others to maintain code quality and reliability.
• Drive decisions that shape product design, application functionality, and technical operations/processes.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, particularly in full stack development and cloud-native solutions.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and best practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Influence peers and project stakeholders to adopt and apply leading-edge technologies and methodologies.
• Ensure operational stability and performance of applications, proactively addressing issues and optimizing processes.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Strong experience building enterprise grade software products, hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs and relevant microservices framework; proficient in React for modern front-end development and UI/UX best practices.
• Strong experience with Oracle databases, including schema design and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Test Driven Development (TTD), with hands-on experience in test automation frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Cucumber.
• Strong understanding of security standards such as OAuth, TLS, and Kerberos.
• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design, microservices patterns, and modern architectures.
• Familiarity with log/metric collection and monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk.
• Proficiency in using Agentic AI Coding assistance such as Copilot, Claude.
• Hands-on experience with building CI/CD pipelines using Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Fortify.
• Practical experience with AWS Cloud services and cloud-native application development. 
• Experience with MQ/Apache Kafka for distributed messaging and event-driven architectures.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience managing or mentoring other technical specialists.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.