Lead Software Engineer - Equities Pre Trading

Are you ready to make a real impact and push the boundaries of technology? At JPMorganChase, you’ll join a team that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer opportunities for career growth and mobility, empowering you to develop your skills and contribute to market-leading products. You’ll be part of a diverse and supportive culture where your ideas matter and your work drives meaningful outcomes.

Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Equities Pre Trade group, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing and delivering secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions. You’ll work within an agile team, contributing across multiple technical areas to support our business objectives. Your expertise will help drive innovation, operational stability, and technical excellence. You’ll foster a culture of inclusion, opportunity, and respect while collaborating with internal and external partners.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues and improve operational stability
• Lead evaluation sessions with vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials
• Drive communities of practice across Software Engineering to promote new and leading-edge technologies
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• High competency with Java and Gradle
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Skilled in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Python
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Jenkins
• AWS
• Docker containers
• GitHub Copilot/Agentic AI
• Kubernetes
• ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ
• Equities structured products

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our

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J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.