Lead Software Engineer, Prime Finance Technology

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and support projects on the Global Portfolio Swap platform, ensuring secure, stable, and scalable solutions.

• Build high‑quality production code and algorithms; execute design, development, and troubleshooting across multiple components.

• Deliver software on time and to a high standard; support Production, Simulation, QA, and Development environments.

• Design, develop, and maintain pricing systems; enhance existing systems by analyzing objectives and identifying improvements.

• Drive innovation and best practices; participate in the full SDLC using Agile methodologies.

• Manage defect tracking, resolve issues, and prepare system updates.

• Collaborate across global teams; communicate clearly with colleagues in multiple offices.

• Partner with Product, Front Office, Middle Office, Finance, Legal, and other JPMorganChase functions to deliver competitive, scalable solutions.

• Meet tight deadlines and adapt to evolving requirements in line with departmental needs.

• Orchestrate and deploy highly scalable REST‑based stateless services and APIs for web applications.

• Think beyond routine approaches to decompose technical problems and build robust solutions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Formal training/certification in software engineering with 5+ years applied experience.

• Possess hands‑on system design, application development, testing, and operational stability experience.

• Possess strong Java and Spring expertise; multithreading, REST, caching services, DB schema design, and data access technologies.

• Proficient in Oracle Database, SQL, and PL/SQL proficiency, including stored procedures.

• Knowledge of automated testing methodologies/frameworks (e.g., JUnit, TDD, BDD).

• Experience designing ecosystems for web applications and API platforms; strong OOD and design patterns.

• Familiar with CI/CD and DevOps tooling (e.g., Maven, Hudson), plus Git/SVN version control.

• Proficient in UNIX/Linux/Windows; skilled in UNIX shell and Perl scripting.

• Strong understanding of Agile and full SDLC; experience on at least one major, technically challenging global project.

• Demonstrate financial markets exposure, preferably with equity swaps and synthetic prime brokerage, and exhibit excellent communication with a positive, global team mindset.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience with Public Cloud Technologies (AWS).

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies.

• Experience with Kafka and enterprise messaging (e.g., WebSphere MQ) is a plus.

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