Lead eSoftware Engineer - DevOps

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Houston, TX

1d•$171,000 - $260,000

About The Position

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 eSoftware Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Electronic Trading Technology (ETT) 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. You will help build and run latency-sensitive services that operate under real-time constraints, and bring strong engineering discipline and attention to detail to design, implementation, testing, and production readiness—delivering changes that are correct, predictable, and resilient during market hours.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Advanced development experience in one or more programming language(s) (i.e., Python, Java, or equivalent)
Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
Familiar with AI-assisted development tools in the development lifecycle (and ability to evaluate outputs critically)
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Proven track record with observability (metrics/logs/traces), alert design, and SLO-driven reliability practices
In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Strong troubleshooting across app + OS + network layers being comfortable with incident response and postmortems
Practical cloud native experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with high-throughput and/or low-latency systems
Proven track record with observability (metrics/logs/traces), alert design, and SLO-driven reliability practices
Experience designing for non-functional requirements (resiliency, scalability, supportability) and driving those into implementation

Responsibilities

Manage and coordinate releases across environments (UAT → production), ensuring readiness checks, clear change documentation, stakeholder communication, and reliable rollback plans
Own production reliability and latency for algo/execution services (including post trading hours releases, operational readiness, and market-hours support posture)
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
Manage and own UAT environment provisioning and configuration for on‑prem hosts—supporting uptime, deployments, environment triage, and release readiness in coordination with partner teams
Build and improve CI/CD and release engineering for Java services with automated builds, artifact/versioning discipline, promotion across environments, gated releases, and fast rollback
Partner with infrastructure/networking teams on Linux and network performance considerations that impact latency, jitter, and stability
Drive incident management excellence in knowing rapid triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation to reduce recurrence and MTTR
Engineer for resiliency with HA/DR design, failover testing, dependency isolation, and capacity
Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
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