Sr Lead Software Engineer - Equities Prime Sec Lending Technology

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Houston, TX

7h

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 Senior Lead Software Engineer at 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.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong experience building enterprise grade software products, hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs and relevant microservices framework; proficient in React for modern front-end development and UI/UX best practices.
• Strong experience with Oracle databases, 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 with AWS Cloud services and cloud-native application development.
• Experience with MQ/Apache Kafka for distributed messaging and event-driven architectures.

Nice To Haves

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

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.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
• Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
• We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.
• These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.
• Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees