Lead Java Software Engineer

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
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 at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, your role will be pivotal in an agile team. You will be tasked with enhancing, architecting, and delivering high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a significant technical contributor, your responsibilities will encompass developing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains within various business functions, all aimed at bolstering the firm's business objectives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Actively contribute to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle practices.
- Investigate issues reported by Production Management

**Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills**
- Formal training or certification in engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Proficiency in Java development; knowledge of Kotlin/Python is advantageous.
- Ability to independently address design and functionality problems with mínimal oversight, managing tasks from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
- Proficient with configuration management, build tools, and continuous integration environments such as Jenkins.
- Experience in identifying problem or opportunity areas, developing and implementing necessary fixes and changes, and championing new technologies/processes from design to production.
- Expertise in implementing and managing high-availability infrastructure solutions with automatic failover, and designing, building, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Effective collaboration with teams such as Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Lead Software Engineers, and experience in mentoring and guiding team members constructively across various disciplines.

**Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills**
- Experience with Electronic Trading and FIX protocol necessary
- Knowledge of equities, futures, and options exchange connectivity in global markets is desirable
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana.

**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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

**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.