Description We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Prime Finance Services (Securities Lending), 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 will be conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. We are looking to hire a highly motivated and experienced Lead Java Developer to play a key part in application modernization for the Securities Lending Platform. You will be working directly with business partners in the Prime and Equities organization including Product Development, Front Office, Middle Office Operations, Finance, Legal and other JPMorgan functional areas to deliver competitive, efficient, and scalable product solutions. 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 appropriate teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience Expert knowledge of Core Java programming, Spring Boot/Spring framework and critical functions like messaging, data-access, web-services etc. Experience with Kubernetes/AWS Cloud to build applications and proven design experience in building scalable applications Experience of modern messaging platforms (Kafka) Proficient at Oracle database and shell scripting/python Object oriented design and programming as well being at least familiar with design patterns with a pre-requisite. Familiarity with an RDBMS Practiced in all aspects of the full software life cycle development processes including agile processes, automations and continues delivery methods, application resiliency and security Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills UI Development experience in C#, React JS is preferable Experience with cloud deployment, design and development concerns is preferable Experience in application and data design disciplines with an emphasis on real-time processing and delivery e.g. Kafka, AMPS, FIX protocol is preferable Understanding of the Prime business, in particular Equity Finance - Locate and Positions Management is preferable