Lead Software Engineer - Java

Are you ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career? If so, we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial & Investment Bank - Prime Synthetics (Global Portfolio Swap), you will play a key role in designing, developing, and supporting technology solutions for a high-profile fast-growing business area within the Prime Finance Services group. You will collaborate with global teams and business partners to deliver scalable, efficient, and innovative solutions that drive the firm’s strategic objectives.

Job Responsibilities

Designs, develops, implements, and supports a wide range of ongoing and new projects on the Global Portfolio Swap platform.

Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.

Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.

Supports Production, Simulation, QA, and Development environments.

Works with the team to design, develop, and maintain various pricing systems.

Drives innovation and adoption of best practices within the team.

Enhances existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing action plans, and identifying areas for modification and improvement.

Manages defect tracking systems, resolve issues, and prepare updates for systems.

Participates in the full system development lifecycle using Agile methodologies.

Collaborates effectively within the broader global teams, communicating clearly with colleagues in multiple global offices.

Builds strong working relationships with other teams and business partners across Product Development, Front Office, Middle Office Operations, Finance, Legal, and other JPMorgan functional areas to deliver competitive, efficient, and scalable product solutions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.

Strong experience in Java, Spring, multithreading, REST, Data Caching Services, DB schema design, and data access technologies.

Knowledge of automated testing methodologies / frameworks (., JUnit, TDD, BDD).

Hands-on experience in Oracle Database, SQL, and PL / SQL, including writing Stored Procedures.

Previous experience designing ecosystems for Web applications & API Platforms.

Experience in building, orchestrating, and deploying highly scalable REST-based stateless APIs / web services for web applications.

Familiarity with build tools (., Maven), continuous integration tools (., Hudson), version control systems (., Git or SVN).

Experience with streaming solution like Kafka and messaging queues like Web Sphere MQ is advantageous.

Proficient in UNIX, Linux, and MS Windows; skilled in UNIX Shell and Perl scripting.

Experience in financial markets, with knowledge of equity swaps and synthetic prime brokerage highly desirable.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent.
• Experience with Public Cloud Technologies (AWS).
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies.