Lead Software Engineer Blockchain (Public or Permissioned blockchain platforms)

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 Commercialand 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

• Provide technical leadership for a global team building blockchain/DLT applications and services
• Design and develop scalable secure services using Java Spring Boot TypeScript/NestJS ReactJS Python.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality testing observability reliability and performance
• Own end-to-end delivery: requirements architecture implementation CI/CD deployment and production support
• Partner with platform teams to advance developer experience toolchains and cloud-hosted blockchain services
• Collaborate closely with Front Office Product Operations and Core Blockchain teams to imagine experiment and execute on transformative DLT use cases
• Engage with industry groups and regulators as adoption grows; contribute to shaping the evolving industry and regulatory landscape
• Coach and mentor engineers; grow the teams technical output quality and repeatability
• Advocate for DLT across the firm and externally. Represent the team to senior leaders in CIB Markets.
• Input into the wider technology innovation agenda including Generative AI Agents and Quantum

Required qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience
• Significant hands-on software engineering experience including Java Spring Boot and enterprise-grade systems
• Experience building on public or permissioned blockchain platforms (e.g. Solana Ethereum/EVM Hyperledger Polkadot Cosmos Avalanche Canton)
• Understanding of cryptographic protocols smart contracts and key management
• Proficiency with enterprise development toolchains: Git Jenkins CI/CD pipelines automated testing
• Solid understanding of architecture and design across distributed enterprise systems
• Proven track record delivering complex software projects into production
• Excellent collaboration facilitation and communication skills; ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups
• Demonstrated coaching and mentoring capability; ability to elevate team engineering practices

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures
• Exposure to front office or trade-processing environments within financial services
• Experience with Python and broader web technologies