Lead Software Engineer – Low-Latency Core Banking Application

Be an integral part of a team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver cutting-edge technology products.

JPMorgan’s Global Liquidity and Cash Management Technology team is seeking a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer, to drive development of cutting-edge technology solutions for the Corporate & Investment Bank’s Payments business. You'll play a pivotal role in building the next-generation low-latency wholesale banking platform, designed for global scale, supporting hundreds of millions of accounts and responding in milliseconds to thousands of requests every second. We seek a passionate technologist eager to learn, grow, and apply their skills to build a significant new platform.

As a technical lead, you will help drive the technical delivery by making significant technical contributions as key member of a team with a reputation for rapidly delivering exciting and innovative capabilities. Day to day you will write your own performant, secure and thread-safe code and help your team grow their technical capabilities, through paired programming and code reviews. You will collaborate with colleagues from Product, Architecture, Infrastructure and Engineering to develop elegant and efficient technical designs that deliver new client features, whilst achieving stringent non-functional requirements for security, performance and availability.

This exciting role provides you with the opportunity to see the direct impact of your contributions on the liquidity business and receive client feedback from around the globe. While banking experience is not required, you must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist, eager to continuously learn and enhance your skills.

Job responsibilities

• Design and develop robust, high-performance, latency-sensitive code, incorporate security requirements and reviewing code written by team members using software engineering best practices.
• Write secure, high-quality code and automated tests.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Solutions Analysts, Technical Architects and Senior Engineers to design the best technical design and approach for technical development.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
• Help refine the technical aspects of epics in collaboration with the Solutions Analysts.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code.
• Drive architectural reviews, code reviews and business demos.
• Assess compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performant at scale, and exceed customer expectations.
• Contribute to the on-going development of the team, including recruitment, paired programming, peer review and mentoring.
• Ensure proper communication concerning challenges that may affect the outcome of a project's completion date.
• Collaborate effectively as part of a global team and add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering sub-teams focused on the delivery of epics by transforming requirements into stories and a build plan.
• Participate in communities of practice across the group to drive awareness, consistency and adoption of modern technologies.
• Provide out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Certified Kubernetes and public cloud knowledge (. CKAD and AWS certifications).