Lead Software Engineer, Collateral Services Tech

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Hong Kong · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase focused on enhancing, building, and delivering technology products within Securities Services. The role involves executing software solutions, designing, developing, troubleshooting, optimizing back-end applications, and driving adoption of best practices including AI integration. Requires strong experience in system design, application development, Java 17+ with Spring Boot, cloud-native practices, and leading engineering teams. Experience with Microservices, EDA, and Python is preferred. The company operates in a regulated financial services environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
  2. Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug code written by others.
  3. Optimize back-end applications for maximum speed, reliability, and scalability.
  4. Drive adoption of best practices in software development and AI integration, maintaining high standards of quality, security, and efficiency.
  5. Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability of software applications and systems.

Skills

Required

  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Java 17+
  • Spring Boot
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • enterprise applications
  • high availability
  • performance
  • Kafka
  • EKS
  • Distributed Cache
  • leading and developing a software engineering team
  • cloud native experience

Nice to have

  • Microservices
  • Data usage patterns
  • Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
  • no SQL Data bases
  • Cassandra
  • Python programming
  • RESTful APIs
  • React.js
  • financial services

What the JD emphasized

  • AI integration