Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java

Job Summary

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the Finance Technology Team, you will design and deliver trusted, market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will carry out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas to support our business objectives. You’ll work as a seasoned member of an agile team, shaping the direction of technology and process implementations. Your role will help foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team culture while driving impactful results.

Job Responsibilities

Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build innovative solutions

Define and lead technology and process implementations across groups to achieve firmwide objectives

Create secure, high‑quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with systems

Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met

Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets

Identify hidden problems and patterns in data to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture

Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new and emerging technologies

Add to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Provide leadership and high‑level direction to multiple feature teams both regionally and globally

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts

Hands‑on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Proficient in coding in one or more languages such as Java or Spark

Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with modern programming and database querying languages

Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

Understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)

Ability to solve data‑oriented problems using technologies such as SQL, Relational DB, Spark, NoSQL, optimizing for performance

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Experience with Spark performance tuning of complex calculations on large datasets

Experience delivering production changes to complex software using Scala and Spark

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first‑class business in a first‑class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long‑term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. Lead talented engineers and shape impactful technology products in a collaborative, inclusive team at JPMorganChase.

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