Sr Lead Software Engineer - Java - Digital Assets

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Asset & Wealth Management, Digital Assets Team in New York. You will work on enhancing trusted market-leading technology products and conduct critical technology solutions to support the firm's objectives.

Your responsibilities include executing creative software solutions, leading technical troubleshooting, and developing secure, high-quality code. Strong qualifications in Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native technologies are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience in software engineering.
• Strong OOP background in Java or languages like Go, Rust, JavaScript.
• Collaborative experience enhancing developer experience and cloud-hosted services.

Responsibilities

• Execute software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' code.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate recurring issues.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

Java

Spring Boot

TDD

Git

Jenkins

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Kubernetes

Collaboration skills

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Git

Jenkins

AWS

Kubernetes

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 JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management, Digital Assets 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

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes‑oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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.3
• Work closely with Product, Operations, and Core Blockchain teams to innovate and execute transformative blockchain use cases.
• Strong object‑oriented programming language background in Java or more of the following languages: Go, Rust or JavaScript
• Proficiency with enterprise development toolchains: 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

• 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 is a plus
• Exposure to building on public or permissioned blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum/EVM, Hyperledger, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, Canton) is a plus
• Thorough understanding of cryptographic protocols and blockchain implementations
• Good understanding in key management, custody solutions and cryptographic fundamentals is a plus