Lead Software Engineer - Java
2 days ago• Houston, TX
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Equities organization, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
- Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas/solutions
- Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
- Takes ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
- Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
- Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable
- Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
- Provide 3rd Level production support - analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience and skillsets
- Hands-on expertise in Java application development
- Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency
- Strong experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services
- Advanced experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
- Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
- Proficient knowledge of cloud compute platforms, including AWS
- Expertise in full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
- Experience working in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity, supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products
- Experience with Python development
- Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3
- Experience with AI assisted coding
ABOUT US
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
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.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
ABOUT THE TEAM
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.
Client-provided location(s): Houston, TX
Job ID: JPMorgan-210709079
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2026-02-07T19:02:32
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