Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain at JPMorgan Chase

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management, Digital Assets Team, 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 creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Design and develop scalable, secure services utilizing Java, Spring Boot, and TDD
• Collaborate with platform teams to enhance developer experience, toolchains, and cloud-hosted blockchain services.3
• Work closely with Product, Operations, and Core Blockchain teams to innovate and execute transformative blockchain use cases.
• Strong object-oriented programming language background in Java or more of the following languages: Go, Rust or JavaScript
• Proficiency with enterprise development toolchains: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing
• Demonstrable practical cloud native experience, in particular AWS and Kubernetes.
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proven track record delivering complex software projects into production
• Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills; ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on knowledge of end-2-end development in web3 ecosystem – such as smart contract development, deployment, interaction with RPC providers, integrating with key management systems is a plus
• Exposure to building on public or permissioned blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum/EVM, Hyperledger, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, Canton) is a plus
• Thorough understanding of cryptographic protocols and blockchain implementations
• Good understanding in key management, custody solutions and cryptographic fundamentals is a plus