Sr. Lead Software Engineer Java17, Spring, Kubernetes, Linux

You will lead a team of Java and React developers partner closely with Product Delivery and Sales and Trading and own the long-term technical vision and stability of our platform.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banks Markets Execute platform team you will set engineering standards architect and build latency-sensitive services and ensure our codebase is clean well-structured and testable. You will drive technical analysis of client requirements; estimation and planning; code reviews; architecture design sessions; and retrospectives. You will also establish and track reliability goals implement robust observability and lead stability initiatives (resilience patterns incident response post-incident reviews). There will be opportunities to learn about financial markets from colleagues stakeholders and training resources and to grow your skills through curated technical development programs and dedicated training days.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering team (Java backend and React frontend); drive delivery predictability and quality.
• Partner with Product and Delivery to shape roadmaps prioritize work manage dependencies and de-risk releases.
• Own the platforms long-term technical vision and architectural runway; set guardrails integration contracts versioning and deprecation paths.
• Establish and meet reliability goals; implement observability and resilience patterns.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews; reduce MTTR lower change failure rate and elevate production readiness.
• Maintain secure-by-default practices (authentication/authorization secrets management dependency hygiene) and uphold risk and controls.
• Remain hands-on: architect and implement high-performance Java services; perform profiling/tuning; collaborate with React developers on API design and backward-compatible rollout strategies.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience

• Demonstrated experience leading an engineering team; mentoring coaching and fostering an inclusive high-performing culture.
• Proven partnership with Product Delivery/Program and business stakeholders; converting business requirements into technical roadmaps OKRs and measurable deliverables.
• Experience owning the evolution and stability of mission-critical platforms: architectural modernization operability performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Experience building high-performance latency-sensitive Java applications.
• Excellent understanding of Java 17 fundamentals concurrency memory management and object-oriented programming paradigms.
• Hands-on experience with Spring and server-side frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot) and strong API design skills.
• Clear understanding of messaging technologies and computer networks; familiarity with FIX and Solace.
• Experience maintaining and troubleshooting software in Linux environments and with microservices deployment topologies on Kubernetes.
• Test-driven development using modern source control and continuous integration; strong CI/CD and release governance.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineers; strong communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Familiarity with Python and React.
• Familiarity with investment banking fintech or financial markets.