Sr Lead Software Engineer - Equities Prime Sec Lending Technology

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Houston seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join an agile team, delivering trusted, scalable technology products in a secure environment across multiple technologies.

You will lead design decisions, mentor peers, and drive SDLC best practices while building enterprise-grade software using Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, AWS, React, and Kafka.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• 5+ years of applied experience building enterprise-grade software products.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Core/Boot, REST APIs and microservices.
• Proficient in Oracle databases, schema design and performance tuning.
• OOD and TTD, with hands-on experience in test automation (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber).
• Knowledge of OAuth, TLS, and Kerberos security standards.
• Domain Driven Design, microservices patterns, and modern architectures.
• Familiarity with ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk.
• Experience CI/CD pipelines with Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify.
• Hands-on AWS cloud-native development and Kafka messaging.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business and technical teams, including contractors and vendors.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code using Core Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, AWS, React, and Kafka; review code for quality.
• Drive design decisions affecting product functionality and technical operations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in full-stack development and cloud-native solutions.
• Contribute to engineering community by promoting firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC best practices.
• Influence peers to adopt leading-edge technologies and methodologies.
• Ensure stable, performant applications and proactive issue resolution.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

React

Oracle

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

JUnit

Mockito

Cucumber

OAuth

TLS

Kerberos

Domain Driven Design

Kafka

Git

Maven

Jenkins

SonarQube

Fortify

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Copilot

Claude

Tools

Git

Maven

Jenkins

SonarQube

Fortify

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 aSenior Lead Software Engineerat JPMorgan Chase within Commercial and Investment Bank, you will play a pivotal role in an agile team, enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact through your contributions.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide regular technical guidance and direction to business and technical teams, including contractors and vendors, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code using Core Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, AWS Cloud, React, and MQ/ Kafka. Review and debug code written by others to maintain code quality and reliability.
• Drive decisions that shape product design, application functionality, and technical operations/processes.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, particularly in full stack development and cloud-native solutions.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and best practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Influence peers and project stakeholders to adopt and apply leading-edge technologies and methodologies.
• Ensure operational stability and performance of applications, proactively addressing issues and optimizing processes.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong experience building enterprise grade software products, hands-on experiencein system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency inJava, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs and relevant microservices framework; proficient inReactfor modern front-end development and UI/UX best practices.
• Strong experience withOracledatabases, including schema design and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Test Driven Development (TTD), with hands-on experience in test automation frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Cucumber.
• Strong understanding of security standards such as OAuth, TLS, and Kerberos.
• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design, microservices patterns, and modern architectures.
• Familiarity with log/metric collection and monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk.
• Proficiency in using Agentic AI Coding assistance such as Copilot, Claude.
• Hands-on experience with building CI/CD pipelines using Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Fortify.
• Practical experience withAWS Cloudservices and cloud-native application development.
• Experience withMQ/Apache Kafkafor distributed messaging and event-driven architectures.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience managing or mentoring other technical specialists.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.