Java Lead Software Engineer - AWM

Job Description

Build the next generation of liquidity trading on Morgan Money—joining a hands‑on Java engineering team at JPMorgan Chase in Asset & Wealth Management. You will partner with trading stakeholders, ship frequently, and use enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted practices to improve reliability, speed, and client outcomes.

As a Lead Software Engineer (Java) within Morgan Money, you will advance next‑generation liquidity trading capabilities for corporate clients across regions. You will be a hands‑on engineer building resilient, secure, high‑performing Java services while partnering closely with investment and trading stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes. You will help strengthen engineering practices and reliability in a fast‑paced environment with frequent production releases.

• Partner with investment and trading teams to translate business objectives into durable, measurable technical outcomes.
• Design, build, and operate low‑latency backend services in Java with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and secure‑by‑design engineering.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of features from design through production release, ensuring operational readiness and strong customer outcomes.
• Drive architecture and engineering decisions that improve performance, reliability, and long‑term maintainability across services.
• Establish and uphold disciplined engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, and continuous integration and delivery.
• Improve observability and incident readiness through effective logging, metrics, tracing, and production diagnostics to reduce time to detect and recover.
• Drive team adoption of enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.
• Apply 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.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands‑on experience delivering production‑grade backend services using Java, with strong object‑oriented design and debugging skills.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems with a focus on low‑latency performance, resiliency patterns, and failure‑mode thinking.
• Proficiency with modern Java frameworks (e.g., Spring) and dependency injection patterns to build maintainable services.
• Demonstrated experience implementing strong testing practices (e.g., unit, integration, and contract testing) and using automated quality gates.
• Experience with messaging and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka or enterprise messaging platforms) and event‑driven design patterns.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and the ability to design and implement controls that reduce operational and technology risk.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI‑assisted software development tools with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations.

• Experience building and operating services on cloud platforms, including reliability and cost‑aware engineering practices.
• Proficiency in performance engineering (profiling, latency analysis, concurrency tuning) for high‑throughput Java services.
• Experience with observability platforms and practices (metrics, tracing, alerting strategy) to improve service health and incident response.
• Familiarity with liquidity, trading, or capital markets concepts and the ability to partner effectively with front‑office stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, or data analysis to support engineering productivity and reliability outcomes.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary…