As a Lead Software Engineer, you will develop strategic software products, lead an agile team, and drive innovation while ensuring secure and scalable solutions.
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a talented team of engineers and make a global impact. As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll help shape market-leading technology products that advance our business and deliver trusted solutions worldwide. You'll collaborate with passionate professionals, solve complex problems, and grow your career in a supportive, innovative environment. We value your expertise, creativity, and commitment to teamwork.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Asset Management Client Service Team, you will develop strategic software products critical to business advancement. You will lead an agile team, enhance and deliver secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions, and contribute across multiple technical areas. Your role will involve driving innovation, applying software engineering best practices, and fostering a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect. Together, we'll deliver solutions that support the firm's business objectives.
Job Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
About Us
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 FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a talented team of engineers and make a global impact. As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll help shape market-leading technology products that advance our business and deliver trusted solutions worldwide. You'll collaborate with passionate professionals, solve complex problems, and grow your career in a supportive, innovative environment. We value your expertise, creativity, and commitment to teamwork.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Asset Management Client Service Team, you will develop strategic software products critical to business advancement. You will lead an agile team, enhance and deliver secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions, and contribute across multiple technical areas. Your role will involve driving innovation, applying software engineering best practices, and fostering a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect. Together, we'll deliver solutions that support the firm's business objectives.
Job Responsibilities:
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build solutions and break down technical problems.
- Expand the digital experience offered to clients.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
- Utilize the Ai4Tech toolset to assist development.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
- Demonstrate leadership by bringing ideas, passion, and ownership to improve the team and products.
- Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials.
- Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new technologies.
- Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with advanced applied experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in backend development (Java, Spring).
- Advanced knowledge and experience in frontend development (React and front-end testing frameworks).
- Hands-on experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
- Proficient in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
- 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, AI, machine learning, mobile).
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and IT systems.
- Practical cloud native experience.
About Us
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 FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.
Top Skills
AI
Cloud
Java
Kafka
Machine Learning
Mobile
React
Spring
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