Lead Software Engineer - C#/.Net - Trading industry exp-Neovest

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Neovest team in New York. This role is a core technical contributor, delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable manner.

You will lead critical development efforts, drive modernization, and mentor teams across multiple engineering disciplines to achieve business objectives with strong security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Proven team leadership skills.
• Experience with C#/.NET and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD and secure coding practices.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.
• Understanding of capital markets IT systems.
• Experience with distributed messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Designs and delivers innovative software solutions across architecture, development, and troubleshooting.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews peers.
• Identifies recurring issues and drives automation to improve stability and resilience.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams to assess designs and capabilities.
• Builds communities of practice to promote emerging technologies.
• Contributes to an inclusive team culture valuing diversity and collaboration.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices with validation standards and secure coding.
• Applies SDLC toolchain knowledge to improve automation and value.

Skills

C#/.NET

Leadership

Agile

Cloud-native

Multi-threaded

System design

AI-assisted tooling

Secure coding

Capital markets

Messaging (RabbitMQ/Kafka)

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

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 Neovest 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Designs and delivers innovative software solutions, including architecture, development, and technical troubleshooting, applying creative problem-solving beyond routine approaches to build solutions and decompose complex technical issues.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code; reviews, debugs, and provides constructive feedback on code written by others.
• Identifies recurring issues and drives automation and remediation to improve the operational stability and resilience of applications and systems.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams, assessing architectural designs, technical capabilities, and fit within existing systems and enterprise information architecture.
• Builds and leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to promote adoption of emerging and leading-edge technologies.
• Contributes to an inclusive team culture that values diversity, opportunity, respect, and collaboration.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, plus 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on software development experience with proven team leadership skills
• Advanced knowledge and experience with C#/.NET
• In-depth knowledge of the Capital markets and trading industry and their IT systems, plus practical cloud-native experience
• Advanced experience developing multi-threaded applications
• Experience building middle-tier services at scale
• Hands-on delivery across system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced understanding of Agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Experience with message distribution technologies (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) 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 coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working with Portfolio Management systems
• Ability to work in an Agile environment
• Understanding of modern User Interface architecture and design
• English skills: advance