Java Lead Software Engineer AWM

Build the next generation of liquidity trading on Morgan Moneyjoining a hands-on Java engineering team at JPMorganChase in Asset & Wealth Management where youll partner with trading stakeholders ship frequently and use enterprise-authorized AI-assisted practices to improve reliability speed and client outcomes.

As a Lead Software Engineer (Java) at JPMorganChase within Morgan Money in Asset & Wealth Management you will advance next-generation liquidity trading capabilities for corporate clients across regions. You will be a hands-on engineer building resilient secure high-performing Java services while partnering closely with investment and trading stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes. You will help strengthen engineering practices and reliability in a fast-paced environment with frequent production releases.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with investment and trading teams to translate business objectives into durable measurable technical outcomes
• Design build and operate low-latency backend services in Java with a focus on scalability resiliency and secure-by-design engineering
• Own end-to-end delivery of features from design through production release ensuring operational readiness and strong customer outcomes
• Drive architecture and engineering decisions that improve performance reliability and long-term maintainability across services
• Establish and uphold disciplined engineering practices including automated testing code review and continuous integration and delivery
• Improve observability and incident readiness through effective logging metrics tracing and production diagnostics to reduce time to detect and recover
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality delivery speed and operational outcomes (e.g. AI-assisted code review/refactoring test strategy acceleration incident/root-cause analysis support) while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding peer review automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to improve the value realized by automation

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Hands-on experience delivering production-grade backend services using Java with strong object-oriented design and debugging skills
• Experience building scalable distributed systems with a focus on low-latency performance resiliency patterns and failure-mode thinking
• Proficiency with modern Java frameworks (e.g. Spring) and dependency injection patterns to build maintainable services
• Demonstrated experience implementing strong testing practices (e.g. unit integration and contract testing) and using automated quality gates
• Experience with messaging and streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka or enterprise messaging platforms) and event-driven design patterns
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and the ability to design and implement controls that reduce operational and technology risk
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of 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 secure handling of inputs/outputs and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe compliant adoption within delivery practices

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience building and operating services on cloud platforms including reliability and cost-aware engineering practices
• Proficiency in performance engineering (profiling latency analysis concurrency tuning) for high-throughput Java services
• Experience with observability platforms and practices (metrics tracing alerting strategy) to improve service health and incident response
• Familiarity with liquidity trading or capital markets concepts and the ability to partner effectively with front-office stakeholders
• Proficiency in Python for automation tooling or data analysis to support engineering productivity and reliability outcomes