Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java Python

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 JPMorganChase within Digital Markets Execution Technology, Execute, 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 and oversees end-to-end software solutions, engineering standards, architecture, and technical troubleshooting for trading systems
• Designs and builds high-performance, latency-sensitive services with awareness of upstream/downstream system dependencies
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Leads technical analysis, estimation, planning, code reviews, architecture sessions, and retrospectives to drive delivery outcomes
• Establishes reliability goals and implements observability, resilience patterns, and operational readiness practices
• Leads incident response and post-incident reviews to improve production stability and performance; identifies recurring issues and drives automation/remediation
• Upholds secure-by-default engineering practices and risk/control standards across the SDLC
• Guides integration contracts, API/versioning strategies, and deprecation paths for platform services
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC toolchain to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while setting validation standards for correctness, performance, and security
• Mentors engineers and contributes to a culture of inclusion, respectful collaboration, and continuous improvement aligned to measurable outcomes Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience in Java / Python
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for mission-critical platforms
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), with deep hands-on expertise in Java (17+), including concurrency, memory management, and object-oriented design
• Demonstrated experience designing clean APIs and rollout strategies for distributed systems (including integration and backward compatibility considerations)
• Practical experience with Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, Linux, and core networking/messaging concepts
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle, including CI/CD, automated testing practices, application resiliency, and security
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-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 and secure handling of inputs/outputs, aligned to resiliency and security expectations
• Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences; ability to operate in globally distributed teams Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
• Exposure to messaging systems and market protocols (e.g., MQ/Kafka; familiarity with FIX and Solace)
• Experience with observability stacks and resilience engineering for low-latency / latency-sensitive platforms
• Familiarity with Python
• Experience operating services in regulated environments with strong auditability and controls ABOUT US J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. About The Team 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.