Lead Software Engineer

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what s possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) Markets, FX Services - Access

FX team, you are an integral member of an agile engineering group focused on designing, enhancing, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable market-leading technology products. In this role, you serve as a core technical contributor, promoting critical technology solutions across multiple domains and business functions, ensuring that our foreign exchange trading and services platforms effectively support the firm s strategic objectives and the evolving needs of our clients.

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Senior-level experience in Java backend development with JDK8+, Spring Boot, and microservice architecture
• Expert in Core Java, multithreading, low latency, scalability, and backward compatibility
• Skilled in managing complex codebase with a focus on performance and maintainability
• Hands-on experience with messaging APIs, including Kafka and IBM UM MQs
• Proficient in TDD and BDD, using mocking APIs and Cucumber
• Strong knowledge of Oracle database design and PL/SQL
• Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Ability to mentor junior developers, resolve technical issues, and support production systems
• Strong communication skills, ability to articulate technical solutions to business and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated expertise in software applications and technical processes (cloud, AI/ML, etc.)

• Senior-level experience in Java backend development with JDK8+, Spring Boot, and microservice architecture
• Expert in Core Java, multithreading, low latency, scalability, and backward compatibility
• Skilled in managing complex codebase with a focus on performance and maintainability
• Hands-on experience with messaging APIs, including Kafka and IBM UM MQs
• Proficient in TDD and BDD, using mocking APIs and Cucumber
• Strong knowledge of Oracle database design and PL/SQL
• Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Ability to mentor junior developers, resolve technical issues, and support production systems
• Strong communication skills, ability to articulate technical solutions to business and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated expertise in software applications and technical processes (cloud, AI/ML, etc.)

• Development experience with Highly available 24/7 applications
• Knowledge of FX Trading Application and Payments domain
• Knowledge of Co-pilot and AI Agents to gain productivity on repeated tasks