Lead Software Engineer – Digital Assets & Blockchain

Next Frontier Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase, within the Asset & Wealth Management, Digital Assets Team, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and secure production code in an agile setting. You’ll collaborate with Platform, Product, and Core Blockchain teams to deliver scalable solutions on AWS/Kubernetes with a focus on security and reliability.

You will mentor teams, lead architectural discussions, and champion best practices across the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Design and develop scalable, secure services utilizing Java, Spring Boot, and TDD.
• Collaborate with platform teams to enhance developer experience, toolchains, and cloud‑hosted blockchain services.
• Work closely with Product, Operations, and Core Blockchain teams to innovate and execute transformative blockchain use cases.
• Strong OO programming background in Java or Go/Rust/JavaScript.
• Proficiency with enterprise development toolchains: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing.
• Demonstrable cloud native experience, AWS and Kubernetes.
• Proven track record delivering complex software projects into production.
• Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting to build solutions beyond routine approaches.
• Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation to improve operational stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors, startups, and teams to assess architecture and applicability.
• Leads communities of practice to drive adoption of new technologies.
• Contributes to team culture of diversity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

TDD

Cloud (AWS)

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git/Jenkins

Secure coding

Problem solving

Collaboration

Tools

Git

Jenkins

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

JPMorganChase, within the Asset & Wealth Management, Digital Assets Team, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and secure production code in an agile setting. You’ll collaborate with Platform, Product, and Core Blockchain teams to deliver scalable solutions on AWS/Kubernetes with a focus on security and reliability.

You will mentor teams, lead architectural discussions, and champion best practices across the engineering organization.