Java Lead Software Engineer — Digital Markets Execution Technology, Execute

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Digital Markets Execution Technology Execute you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance build and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way. As a core technical contributor you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firms business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes and oversees end-to-end software solutions engineering standards architecture and technical troubleshooting for trading systems
• Designs and builds high-performance latency-sensitive services with awareness of upstream/downstream system dependencies
• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Leads technical analysis estimation planning code reviews architecture sessions and retrospectives to drive delivery outcomes
• Establishes reliability goals and implements observability resilience patterns and operational readiness practices
• Leads incident response and post-incident reviews to improve production stability and performance; identifies recurring issues and drives automation/remediation
• Upholds secure-by-default engineering practices and risk/control standards across the SDLC
• Guides integration contracts API/versioning strategies and deprecation paths for platform services
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC toolchain to improve code quality delivery speed and operational outcomes while setting validation standards for correctness performance and security
• Mentors engineers and contributes to a culture of inclusion respectful collaboration and continuous improvement aligned to measurable outcomes

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience (EMEA/LATAM-Brazil)
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability for mission-critical platforms
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) with deep hands-on expertise in Java (17) including concurrency memory management and object-oriented design
• Demonstrated experience designing clean APIs and rollout strategies for distributed systems (including integration and backward compatibility considerations)
• Practical experience with Spring/Spring Boot microservices Kubernetes Linux and core networking/messaging concepts
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including CI/CD automated testing practices application resiliency and security
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g. for coding code review test acceleration troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness performance and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows including data sensitivity considerations and secure handling of inputs/outputs aligned to resiliency and security expectations
• Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences; ability to operate in globally distributed teams

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Exposure to messaging systems and market protocols (e.g. MQ/Kafka; familiarity with FIX and Solace)
• Experience with observability stacks and resilience engineering for low-latency / latency-sensitive platforms
• Familiarity with Python
• Experience operating services in regulated environments with strong auditability and controls