Lead Software Engineer - Java​/Equities Risk

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive the delivery of a best‑in‑class platform for real‑time derivatives pricing, risk management, and streaming position aggregation for a range of complex financial products.

• Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
• Develops specific enhancements and/or builds new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
• Takes full ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
• Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
• Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements while ensuring they are robust and supportable
• Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
• Provides 3rd‑Level production support to analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system
• Mentors junior Java developers and conducts code and design reviews

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Expertise in Java core concepts, including object‑oriented design, memory management, multi‑threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java
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• Advanced hands‑on coding experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring
  
  JPA/Hibernate, and REST‑based services
• Strong experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
• Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs, and analyze system performance using tools such as Dynatrace
• Experience with databases – relational and No‑SQL (Sybase, Oracle, Mongo
  
  DB)
• Expertise with messaging middleware platforms (Kafka/Rabbit
  
  MQ) and exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS
• Proven experience with the full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, and Maven
• Demonstrated experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
• Ability to work in a 3rd‑Level advanced support capacity and support production environments, responding to user concerns and taking ownership of production issues

• Experience working in financial services and understanding of equity derivative products
• Hands‑on coding experience with Python
• Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, Angular
  
  JS, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3
• In‑depth knowledge of AWS public cloud products and solutions (EC2, S3, Lambda, EFS)
• Cloud certification – AWS or Kubernetes

• Competitive total rewards package with base salary based on role, experience, skill set and location
• Commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation paid in cash and/or forfeitable equity
• Range of employee benefits and programs, including comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.