Lead Software Engineer Digital Assets Team Job New York New York USA,Software Development

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Asset Wealth Management, Digital Assets Team, you lead multiple technical areas, manage the activities of multiple departments, and collaborate across technical domains. Your expertise is applied cross-functionally to drive the adoption and implementation of technical methods within various teams and aid the firm in remaining at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

We are looking for a visionary engineer to join our Asset Management, Digital Assets team. In this role, you will drive the delivery of innovative blockchain and smart contract applications in a rapidly growing space in asset management.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of the financial ecosystem by collaborating with product and platform teams to execute our digital assets strategy. The ideal candidate is passionate about blockchain, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is eager to develop impactful, scalable solutions.

If you are a self-starter, require minimal supervision and are flexible and able to work with diverse groups of people including all levels of business management within a large organization, then we are excited to meet you.

Job responsibilities

Design and develop scalable, secure services utilizing Java, Spring Boot, Type Script/NestJS, ReactJS, and Python.
Collaborate with platform teams to enhance developer experience, tool chains, and cloud-hosted blockchain services.
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Work closely with Product, Operations, and Core Blockchain teams to innovate and execute transformative blockchain use cases.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
Strong object-oriented programming language background in Java one or more of the following languages:
Go, Rust or Java Script
Proficiency with enterprise development tool chains:
Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing
Demonstrable practical cloud native experience, in particular AWS and Kubernetes.
Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Proven track record delivering complex software projects into production
Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills; ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Digital Asset experience
Hands-on knowledge of end-2-end development in web3 ecosystem – such as smart contract development, deployment, interaction with RPC providers, integrating with key management systems.
Exposure to building on public or permissioned blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum/EVM, Hyperledger, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, Canton)
Thorough understanding of cryptographic protocols and blockchain implementations
Good understanding in key management, custody solutions and cryptographic fundamentals