Lead Software Engineer

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Position summary

As a CED technologist, you will participate in all aspects of the e-trading development life cycle, from designing a scalable architecture to deployment with a focus on stability and performance.

Job Responsibilities

• Regularly provide technical guidance and support to the business, technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, review, and debug code written by others.
• Drive decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more focus areas.
• Contribute to the engineering community by advocating firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices in the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and decision-makers to adopt leading-edge technologies.
• Promote a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Lead projects independently and guide team members.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in Java concepts and advanced experience, preferably with financial systems exposure.
• Strong Java development skills and knowledge of Spring framework (Boot, MVC, Cloud).
• Basic knowledge of AWS cloud services (MSK, EC2, Lambdas, etc.).
• Experience with RESTful APIs and SSL/TLS certificates.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree in STEM.
• Exposure to the financial industry, especially Futures & Options, is a plus.
• Understanding of FIX protocol and workflow.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to prominent clients worldwide. We aim to build trusted, long-term partnerships and value diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunity for all applicants and employees.

About the Team

Our Commercial & Investment Bank operates across banking, markets, securities services, and payments, serving clients in over 100 countries with strategic advice, capital raising, risk management, and liquidity extension.