Java Lead Software Engineer — Digital Markets Execution Technology, Execute
JPMorgan Chase14 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Execute and oversee end-to-end software solutions, engineering standards, architecture, and technical troubleshooting for trading systems.
- Design and build high-performance, latency-sensitive services while accounting for upstream and downstream dependencies.
- Develop, review, debug, and maintain secure, high-quality production code.
- Lead technical analysis, estimation, planning, code reviews, architecture sessions, and retrospectives.
- Establish reliability goals and implement observability, resilience patterns, and operational readiness practices.
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, driving automation and remediation of recurring issues.
- Uphold secure-by-default engineering practices and risk and control standards across the software development lifecycle.
- Guide integration contracts, API and versioning strategies, and deprecation paths for platform services.
- Lead adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering tools and define validation standards for correctness, performance, and security.
- Mentor engineers and promote inclusive collaboration and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience with Java.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for mission-critical platforms.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Java 17 or later, including concurrency, memory management, and object-oriented design.
- Experience designing clean APIs and rollout strategies for distributed systems, including integration and backward-compatibility considerations.
- Practical experience with Spring or Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking and messaging concepts.
- Proficiency across the software development lifecycle, including automated testing, application resiliency, security, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience leading the effective use of enterprise-approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs.
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, data sensitivity, and secure input and output handling.
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences and ability to work in globally distributed teams.
- Preferred: exposure to MQ, Kafka, FIX, Solace, observability stacks, resilience engineering, low-latency platforms, Python, and regulated environments with strong auditability and controls.
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About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.