Lead Software Engineer

Join us to shape the future of regulatory technology and make a meaningful impact on the financial industry. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate with talented colleagues, drive innovation, and deliver trusted technology solutions. You’ll have the chance to grow your skills, work on critical platforms, and be part of a team that values diversity, inclusion, and respect. Your expertise will help us build secure, scalable, and market-leading products.

Job Summary:

As a Lead Software Engineer in Regulatory Controls and Operational Risk Technology, you will play a key role as an individual contributor on an agile team. You will leverage your advanced coding skills to develop and enhance one of our most important platforms for Regulatory Tracking and Management. You will deliver critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas supporting the firm’s business objectives. You will help shape our team culture and drive the adoption of new technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to solve complex problems.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to automate or eliminate recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Lead evaluation sessions with vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials.
• Drive outcomes-oriented probing of new technologies for use within existing systems and information architecture.
• Lead communities of practice to promote awareness and adoption of leading-edge technologies.
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced skills in one or more programming languages.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Proficient 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 a technical discipline (such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and IT systems.
• Practical cloud native experience.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience with Java/J2EE, REST APIs, and building event-driven microservices.
• Experience with Spring Boot Framework and AWS services in public cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in RDBMS concepts and SQL querying.
• Strong proficiency in React and experience with AG Grid for complex data-driven UIs.
• Hands-on experience with Websockets for real-time communication.
• Solid understanding of Redis for caching and pub/sub mechanisms.

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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Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.