Senior Lead Software Engineer - Digital Asset Services

Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that constantly pushes the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top‑notch technology products. As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank – Payments Technology, Core Blockchain 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 significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem‑solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

• Designs and implements microservices architectures using industry‑standard technologies and frameworks.
• Designs blockchain solutions and decentralized applications on private and public blockchain networks, with proven and verified cryptographic protocols.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Monitors and optimizes the performance of microservices, ensuring high availability and responsiveness.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues, providing timely solutions to maintain application stability.
• Conducts code reviews and provides constructive feedback to peers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Implements rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure.
• Designs and verifies cryptographic protocols deployed on the blockchain. Designs blockchain solutions that can support benchmark use‑cases of decentralized applications, with proven and verified cryptographic protocols.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• A degree in Computer Science / Mathematics or equivalent work experience in a field utilizing the same subject matter.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for traditional distributed systems.
• Practical experience developing on blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, or similar.
• Strong object‑oriented programming language background. Hands‑on experience with application programming, back‑end API development and distributed microservices infrastructure in one or more programming language(s):
  Solidity, Java, JavaScript, Python.
• Experience and understanding of the cryptographic principles underpinning blockchain technologies such as encryption algorithms, key management, key wallets.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as Amazon, Google, or Microsoft.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.

• Experience in Financial Markets.
• Experience designing and writing smart contracts with Solidity using Hardhat, Truffle, Slither scanning etc.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, EKS, Docker.

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets worldwide.

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, colour, 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.