JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Lead Software Engineer – Digital Markets Execution Technology
At JPMorgan Chase
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Digital Markets Execution Technology, you will be part of an agile team focused on delivering trusted, market-leading technology products—securely, stably, and at scale. As a core technical contributor, you will design and execute critical solutions across multiple domains, aligning with the firm’s strategic business goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute and oversee end-to-end software solutions, ensuring adherence to engineering standards, architecture best practices, and technical troubleshooting for trading systems
- Design and build high-performance, latency-sensitive services with a strong awareness of upstream/downstream dependencies
- Develop secure, high-quality production code and conduct peer reviews, debugging, and collaborative problem-solving
- Lead technical analysis, estimation, planning, code reviews, architecture sessions, and retrospectives to drive efficient delivery outcomes
- Establish reliability goals and implement:
- Observability strategies
- Resilience patterns
- Operational readiness practices
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews to improve production stability and performance, identifying recurring issues and driving automation and remediation
- Enforce secure-by-default engineering practices and risk/control compliance throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Define and implement API/versioning strategies, integration contracts, and deprecation paths for shared platform services
- Champion enterprise AI-assisted engineering adoption across the SDLC toolchain, improving:
- Code quality
- Delivery speed
- Operational outcomes
- Validation for correctness, performance, and security
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and continuous improvement culture while mentoring junior engineers and driving measurable improvements
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Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification in software engineering, complemented by advanced applied experience (with a preference for EMEA/LATAM-Brazil exposure)
- Hands-on expertise in:
- System design
- Application development
- Testing and operational stability for mission-critical platforms
- Proficiency in Java 17+ with deep expertise in:
- Concurrency
- Memory management
- Object-oriented design
- Strong experience in:
- Designing clean APIs with backward-compatibility support
- Distributed systems architecture
- Integration strategies (e.g., event-driven flows, system dependencies)
- Practical knowledge of:
- Spring/Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
- Linux systems
- Core networking & messaging concepts
- Expertise across the entire SDLC, including:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automated testing
- Application resiliency and failure recovery
- Security best practices
- Demonstrated ability to lead AI-assisted tool adoption (e.g., Git Copilot, Hugging Face, or similar) while setting team standards for validation in:
- Correctness
- Performance
- Security
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including:
- Mitigating risks related to data sensitivity
- Secure handling of inputs/outputs
- Ability to articulate and advocate technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in globally distributed Agile teams
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Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with market protocols (e.g., FIX, Solace) and messaging systems (MQ, Kafka)
- Hands-on expertise in latency-sensitive platforms, including:
- Observability stacks (e.g., APM tools, telemetry)
- Resilience engineering (chaos engineering, circuit breakers)
- Knowledge of Python for scripting, automation, or integration purposes
- Direct experience operating in regulated environments with:
- Strong auditability and compliance frameworks
- Robust controls (e.g., BCBS 239 for financial systems)
About J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, helping corporations, governments, and institutions navigate markets worldwide. Our commitment to "doing business in an first-class way" drives us to build enduring partnerships that empower our clients to achieve their objectives.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We value diversity and inclusivity as cornerstones of our success. J.P. Morgan is an equal opportunity employer and proactively fosters a workplace where:
- All applicants and employees are considered without bias (race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, etc.)
- Accommodations are provided for religious practices, disabilities, or other needs (see FAQs here)
This opportunity sits within our Commercial & Investment Bank, a group that spans over 100 countries, providing unmatched global reach in:
- Banking
- Markets
- Securities services
- Payments
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