Sr Lead Software Engineer - Equities Prime Sec Lending Technology

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Houston, TX +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase focusing on Equities Prime Sec Lending Technology. Responsibilities include providing technical guidance, developing secure production code using Core Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, AWS Cloud, React, and MQ/Kafka, driving product design decisions, and ensuring operational stability. Requires formal training/certification in software engineering and 5+ years of applied experience, with advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs, React, Oracle databases, OOD, TTD, and security standards. Familiarity with monitoring technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS Cloud services is also required. Experience with AI coding assistants like Copilot and Claude is mentioned as a required skill.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide regular technical guidance and direction to business and technical teams, including contractors and vendors, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  2. Develop secure, high-quality production code using Core Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, AWS Cloud, React, and MQ/ Kafka. Review and debug code written by others to maintain code quality and reliability.
  3. Drive decisions that shape product design, application functionality, and technical operations/processes.
  4. Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, particularly in full stack development and cloud-native solutions.
  5. Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and best practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 5+ years applied experience
  • building enterprise grade software products
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • Java
  • Spring Core
  • Spring Boot
  • REST APIs
  • microservices framework
  • React
  • UI/UX best practices
  • Oracle databases
  • schema design
  • performance tuning
  • Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
  • Test Driven Development (TTD)
  • test automation frameworks
  • Junit
  • Mockito
  • Cucumber
  • security standards
  • OAuth
  • TLS
  • Kerberos
  • Domain Driven Design
  • microservices patterns
  • modern architectures
  • log/metric collection and monitoring technologies
  • ELK stack
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • AppDynamics
  • Splunk
  • Agentic AI Coding assistance
  • Copilot
  • Claude
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Git
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • SonarQube
  • Fortify
  • AWS Cloud services
  • cloud-native application development
  • MQ/Apache Kafka
  • distributed messaging
  • event-driven architectures

Nice to have

  • managing or mentoring other technical specialists
  • DevOps practices and tools
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years applied experience
  • Strong experience building enterprise grade software products
  • hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs and relevant microservices framework
  • proficient in React for modern front-end development and UI/UX best practices
  • Strong experience with Oracle databases, including schema design and performance tuning
  • Proficiency in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Test Driven Development (TTD)
  • hands-on experience in test automation frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Cucumber
  • Strong understanding of security standards such as OAuth, TLS, and Kerberos
  • Knowledge of Domain Driven Design, microservices patterns, and modern architectures
  • Familiarity with log/metric collection and monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk
  • Proficiency in using Agentic AI Coding assistance such as Copilot, Claude
  • Hands-on experience with building CI/CD pipelines using Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Fortify
  • Practical experience with AWS Cloud services and cloud-native application development
  • Experience with MQ/Apache Kafka for distributed messaging and event-driven architectures