Sr Lead Software Engineer - Equities Prime Sec Lending Technology

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.