Lead Software Engineer - Java

Job Description
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

• Formal training or certification on enterprise software development concepts and advanced applied experience.
• Excellent understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals and frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies, and computer networks.
• Experience of low-latency programming techniques and technologies (e.g. Inter-Process Communication, Memory-Mapped Files and Ring Buffers).
• Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers.
• Experience of working on distributed systems and detailed knowledge of distributed systems design patterns.
• Detailed knowledge of relational database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL and CockroachDB), database resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and security.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (Kafka).
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, documentation, diagramming, and presentation skills, with experience working with globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Hands-on practical experience in secure system design, application development, automated regression testing, performance profiling and operational stability
• Experience with diagramming software (e.g., Lucid, Draw.io, Visio) and technical writing.
• Passion for technical innovation and staying up to date with emerging technologies.
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience another statically compiled language like Golang, Rust or C++.
• Experience with caching technologies, e.g. Apache Ignite, GridGain, Hazelcast or Redis.
• Experience with infrastructure as code software, e.g. Terraform.
• Awareness of key architectural patterns/approaches, algorithms, data structures, cryptography, security protocols (e.g., TLS and OAuth/OIDC), secure system design and Threat Modelling.
• Demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.

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