Lead Software Engineer - Low Latency Java

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Liquidity and Cash Management Technology team, you will help promote technical delivery by making significant technical contributions as key member of a team with a reputation for rapidly delivering exciting and innovative capabilities.

We are seeking a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer, to drive development of cutting-edge technology solutions for the Corporate & Investment Bank’s Payments business. You'll play a pivotal role in building the next-generation low-latency wholesale banking platform, designed for global scale, supporting hundreds of millions of accounts and responding in milliseconds to thousands of requests every second. We seek a passionate technologist eager to learn, grow, and apply their skills to build a significant new platform.

As a technical lead, you will help drive technical delivery by making significant technical contributions as key member of a team with a reputation for rapidly delivering exciting and innovative capabilities.

Initially, you will be responsible for leading the development of the quality engineering framework to support the validation of a complex, low latency distributed system. The role’s scope is broad and will extend to include contributions across the entire project including the delivery of production code.

Day to day you will write your own performant, secure and thread-safe code and help your team grow their technical capabilities, through paired programming and code reviews. You will collaborate with colleagues from Product, Architecture, Infrastructure and Engineering to develop efficient technical designs that deliver new client features, whilst achieving stringent non-functional requirements for security, performance and availability.

This exciting role provides you with the opportunity to see the direct impact of your contributions on the liquidity business and receive client feedback from around the globe. While banking experience is not required, you must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist, eager to continuously learn and enhance your skills.

• Design and develop robust, high-performance, latency-sensitive code, incorporate security requirements and reviewing code written by team members using software engineering best practices.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Solutions Analysts, Technical Architects and Senior Engineers to design the best technical design and approach for technical development.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code.
• Assess compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performant at scale, and exceed customer expectations.
• Contribute to the on-going development of the team, including recruitment, paired programming, peer review and mentoring.
• Collaborate effectively as part of a global team and add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering sub-teams focused on the delivery of epics by transforming requirements into stories and a build plan.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Provide out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases.

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