Lead Software Engineer - Java, Blockchain

JPMorganChase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City, NJ seeks an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our Global Technology team. You will be part of an agile group delivering market-leading, secure, and scalable technology products across banking and merchant services.

Responsibilities include designing and developing scalable systems, ensuring secure production code, and leveraging AWS cloud to deploy solutions. You will work with blockchain technologies and AI-assisted engineering practices to enhance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience coding in Java or Python.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability.
• Experience in a large corporate environment with modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable and resilient systems using Java or Python.
• Execute software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting.
• Create secure, high-quality production code and maintain algorithms.
• Contribute to architecture and design artifacts while ensuring constraints are met.
• Analyze data to develop visualizations and drive software improvements.
• Identify problems in data to improve code quality and system architecture.
• Contribute to engineering communities and explore new technologies.
• Design and implement blockchain-based solutions, including smart contracts on Ethereum.
• Utilize AWS services to architect, deploy, and manage scalable applications.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed.

Skills

Java

Python

System Design

SDLC

Tools

AWS

Ethereum

SQL

Job description

Job Description

Push the limits of what's possible with us as an experienced member of our Software Engineering team.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Global Technology team, you serve as a member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Depending on the team that you join, you could be developing mobile features that give our customers and clients more control over how they bank with us, strategizing on how big data can make our trading systems quicker, driving innovation in payment platforms to deliver seamless, secure, and scalable solutions for merchants and clients, or supporting the integration of our private and public cloud platforms. You may also be involved in developing and integrating blockchain solutions, including experience with public chains such as Ethereum, and leveraging AWS cloud services to build scalable, secure applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Participates in, design and develop scalable and resilient systems using Java or Python to contribute to continual, iterative improvements for product teams
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces or contributes to architecture and design artifacts for applications while ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Designs and implements blockchain-based solutions, including smart contracts and decentralized applications on public chains such as Ethereum
• Utilizes AWS cloud services to architect, deploy, and manage scalable applications
• 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 on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience in coding in Java or Python languages
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle