Lead Software Engineer
J.P. Morgan
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll join a talented team in the CIB PTT space, where you’ll help deliver market-leading technology products and drive innovation across multiple technical areas. You’ll collaborate with passionate professionals, solve complex problems, and grow your expertise in a supportive, inclusive environment.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the CIB PTT space, you will be an integral part of an agile team enhancing, building, and delivering trusted technology solutions. You will serve as a core technical contributor, developing critical solutions across various business functions to support the firm’s objectives. Your role will involve leading technical evaluations, mentoring team members, and fostering a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Job Responsibilities:
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build and optimize technology products.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
- Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials.
- Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new technologies.
- Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Extensive experience in Java software engineering.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, with Java at a high level.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
- Proficient in all aspects of the software development life cycle.
- Experience mentoring junior team members.
- 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).
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and IT systems.
- Practical cloud native experience.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience with GraphQL.
- Experience with Mongo.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with Spring, including WebFlux and cloud.
- Experience with Maven.
- Experience with caching solutions, both in-memory and distributed.
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.
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.
Push the limits of what's possible by delivering secure, scalable technology solutions in a collaborative, agile environment.




