Senior Lead Software Engineer, Pricing and Structuring
JPMorganChase
Software Engineering
Singapore
Posted on Mar 17, 2026
You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect senior engineering leadership opportunity for you.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate & Investment Bank’s Digital Markets Execution Technology team, you will be pivotal in the creation, design, and execution of sophisticated, latency-sensitive components for the Markets Execute platform. You will lead a cross-functional Java and React engineering team, partner with Product, Delivery, Sales, and Trading, and own the platform’s long-term technical vision, reliability, and scalability.
Job responsibilities
- Executes and oversees end-to-end software solutions, engineering standards, architecture, and technical troubleshooting for mission-critical trading systems.
- Writes secure, high-quality, and testable code in Java; collaborates on React APIs and backward-compatible rollout strategies.
- Designs and builds high-performance, latency-sensitive services with awareness of upstream/downstream systems and cross-asset use cases.
- Applies SDLC toolchain knowledge to improve automation, CI/CD, release governance, and operational readiness.
- Leads technical analysis of client requirements, estimation and planning, code reviews, architecture design sessions, and retrospectives.
- Establishes reliability goals; implements robust observability and resilience patterns; reduces MTTR and change failure rate.
- Leads incident response and post-incident reviews; elevates production stability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Upholds secure-by-default practices (authN/authZ, secrets, dependency hygiene) and risk/control standards.
- Guides platform integration contracts, versioning strategies, and deprecation paths; manages dependencies and de-risks releases.
- Mentors engineers; fosters an inclusive, high-performing team culture aligned to measurable OKRs.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with strong computer science foundations.
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for mission-critical platforms.
- Proven leadership of engineering teams and partnership with Product, Delivery/Program, and business stakeholders.
- Expertise developing, debugging, and maintaining Java applications in large environments; strong API design.
- Deep understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals, concurrency, memory management, and object-oriented design.
- Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle; exposure to Agile methodologies, CI/CD, resiliency, and security.
- Proficiency with Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking/messaging concepts.
- Strong focus on automated testing; experience with TDD/BDD, unit testing, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences; ability to operate in globally distributed teams.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies; experience collaborating with React teams.
- Exposure to messaging systems and market protocols (e.g., MQ/Kafka; familiarity with FIX and Solace).
- Experience with observability stacks and resilience engineering for low-latency trading platforms.
- Familiarity with Python; awareness of investment banking, fintech, or financial markets
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Drive significant business impact and tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications