Sr Lead Software Engineer - Equities Prime - Sec Lending Technology

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase focusing on Equities Prime - Sec Lending Technology. The role involves enhancing, building, and delivering technology products using Core Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, AWS Cloud, React, and MQ/Kafka. Responsibilities include providing technical guidance, developing secure code, driving product design decisions, acting as a subject matter expert, and contributing to the engineering community. Requires 10+ years of experience in software engineering, system design, application development, and operational stability, with proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, React, Oracle, and AWS Cloud. Familiarity with security standards, microservices patterns, monitoring technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and AI coding assistants like Copilot and Claude is also mentioned.

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

  • Core Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Oracle
  • AWS Cloud
  • React
  • MQ/ Kafka
  • System design
  • Application development
  • Testing
  • Operational stability
  • Spring Core
  • REST APIs
  • microservices framework
  • UI/UX best practices
  • schema design
  • performance tuning
  • Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
  • Test Driven Development (TTD)
  • Junit
  • Mockito
  • Cucumber
  • OAuth
  • TLS
  • Kerberos
  • Domain Driven Design
  • microservices patterns
  • modern architectures
  • ELK stack
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • AppDynamics
  • Splunk
  • Copilot
  • Claude
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Git
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • SonarQube
  • Fortify
  • cloud-native application development
  • 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

  • 10+ 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)
  • 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