Lead Software Engineer JAVA Backend - Morgan Money

Morgan Money has revolutionized liquidity trading across the firm serving our corporate clients in all regions to have next generation trading capabilities at their fingertips.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), we are increasing our presence in Columbus and this is an opportunity to play a part in one of the most exciting technology agendas in the firm right now, as we look to grow the solution further by several flag-ship technology innovation streams.

Job responsibilities

• Confidently collaborates directly with Investment Teams, Traders, and Portfolio Managers, effectively bridging communication without relying on business analysts or Project Managers.

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, contributing to one of Asset Management’s most high-profile platforms.

• Operates as part of an agile team, regularly deploying software updates to production and adjusting to the dynamic needs and scale of the business.

• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus

• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

• Have excellent programming experience in Core Java

• Implement TDD and BDD techniques, with a focus on leveraging mocking frameworks for effective testing

• Demonstrate an understanding of IoC frameworks in Java, such as native Spring

• Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace or Ignite

• Strong grasp of engineering principles, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.

• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.)

• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Have exposure to working with trading, FIX engines or related technologies.

• Experience in smart contracts, Ethereum and digital wallets

• Exposure to cloud technologies and certification

• Python skills are highly desirable