Lead Software Engineer Blockchain Development Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance build and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial and Investment Banking team you will play a key role in an agile team dedicated to building enhancing and delivering trusted market-leading technology products. 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.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design Peer-to-peer distributed systems and implement using multiple technology stacks.
• Familiarity with key blockchain technologies & understanding.
• Collaborate with various line of business technology teams to design and build robust and performant blockchain-based solutions.
• Design and implement blockchain supporting tools and utilities (e.g. CLI client tools for exploring the blockchain monitoring benchmarking or debugging tools)
• Implement rigorous and thorough testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure.
• Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure
• Design and verify cryptographic protocols deployed on the blockchain
• Design blockchain solutions such that it can support benchmark use-cases of decentralized applications with proven and verified cryptographic protocols
• Build out monitoring protocols and fail-over measures.
• Collaborate with development teams to develop integration design and where appropriate prepare estimates on design and development services for integration initiatives

Required Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience
• Hands-on knowledge of end-2-end development in web3 ecosystem such as smart contract development deployment interaction with RPC providers integrating with key management systems.
• Strong familiarity with different layers such as Ethereum Layer2 protocols
• Strong object-oriented programming language background in one or more of the following languages: Go C Rust Java JavaScript
• Experience in Developing and Designing large and complex distributed computing environments
• Proven track record of delivering software development projects
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services AWS and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with using Git or other version control software for source code management

Desired Skills

• Financial industry experience
• Thorough understanding of cryptographic protocols and blockchain implementations
• Good understanding in key management custody solutions and cryptographic fundamentals
• Awareness of inter-operability solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter that requires minimal supervision
• Flexible / adaptable - able to work with diverse groups of people including all levels of business management
• Excellent project management and facilitation skills