Sr Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack, JAVA, React, AWS

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank specifically in the Markets Technology and Spread Pricing Direct team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems independently with minimal supervision

• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems while taking full ownership of technical decisions and outcomes

• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development with complete autonomy and strategic oversight

• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in the application maintenance and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture independently, serving as a technical authority

• Leverages AI-powered development tools like co-pilot, Claude agents to enhance productivity, code quality, and development workflows with minimal guidance

• Maintains, monitors, and optimizes existing production systems to ensure operational stability and performance, taking full ownership of system health and performance metrics

• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect while mentoring and guiding junior team members

   

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in senior or lead roles.

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) Java

• Good experience in cloud-native foundations AWS

• Advanced experience in application development (Java, Spring Boot, databases and cloud-native foundations AWS)

• Proven experience with Micro services and RESTful Web services

• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

• Knowledge of frontend UI frameworks such as ReactJS

• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar platforms to accelerate development and improve code quality

• Demonstrated ability to maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance existing systems while ensuring minimal disruption to business operations

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of the financial products (e.g. Fixed Income Securities, Structured products, Derivatives etc.)

• Understanding of NoSQL databases 

 

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about tot