Java Lead Software Engineer

Company: JPMorganChase
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Location: London
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Job Description

Transform your career by enhancing and migrating our trade processing platform to a Kubernetes cloud‑native code base. As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Investment Banking, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market‑leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. 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

  • Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
  • Create secure and high‑quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
  • Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
  • Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
  • Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and use these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
  • Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
  • Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies.
  • Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Qualifications

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8+ years of applied experience.
  • Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
  • Advanced coding with Java 11 and advanced capabilities with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
  • Experience with event‑driven development, Kafka, and messaging systems such as Java Messaging Service (JMS).
  • Strong experience developing applications built on microservices architecture while working across a globally distributed team.
  • Ability to communicate effectively across different organization levels for technical and non‑technical audiences, peers, and leadership teams.
  • Experience with AWS ecosystem and application migrations from on‑premise and hybrid solutions to fully cloud‑native applications.
  • In‑depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its IT systems.
  • Ability to contribute directly to coding, code reviews, and technical team delivery while partnering with management and stakeholders to ensure delivery is aligned with overall team objectives.

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 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’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.

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Posted: May 19th, 2026