Lead Software Engineer - Java, Blockchain

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Technology Office, 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, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience in system design, application development, testing, and ensuring operational stability for traditional distributed systems.
• Experience in developing on blockchain platforms like Ethereum and Hyperledger.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming languages, with hands-on experience in application programming, backend API development, and distributed microservices infrastructure using one or more languages , Solidity, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go.
• Understanding of cryptographic principles that support blockchain technologies, including encryption algorithms, key management, and key wallets.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as Amazon, Google, or Microsoft.
• Independently address design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision

• Familiar with designing and writing smart contracts with Solidity using Hardhat, Truffle, Slither scanning etc
• Familiar with AWS, EKS, Docker
• Familiarity with RDBMS is advantageous.
• DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment.