Senior Lead Software Engineer - Trading Systems Architect

JP Morgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JP Morgan Chase in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture and delivery of trusted asset and wealth management technology. You will lead an agile team, design microservices in Java, and ensure secure, scalable production systems across the order lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, embrace AI‑assisted development, enforce TDD/BDD, champion REST and OpenAPI APIs, and steer streaming data with Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of technologists, contractors and vendors to develop and deploy trading applications to the highest standards.
• Designs and implements microservices in Java using streaming, non‑blocking and reactive programming techniques.
• Oversee API design, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, and robust logging and monitoring.

Skills

Java

CI/CD

DevOps

AI‑assisted tools

Microservices

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Cloud-native

OpenAPI/Swagger

Kubernetes

Tools

Kafka

IBM MQ

Redis

AWS

K8s

MSK

Job description

JP Morgan Chase in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture and delivery of trusted asset and wealth management technology. You will lead an agile team, design microservices in Java, and ensure secure, scalable production systems across the order lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, embrace AI‑assisted development, enforce TDD/BDD, champion REST and OpenAPI APIs, and steer streaming data with Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes.