Lead Software Engineer
JPMorganChase
Software Engineering
bournemouth, uk
Posted on Jun 3, 2026
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) Markets, FX Services – AccessFX team, you are an integral member of an agile engineering group focused on designing, enhancing, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable market‑leading technology products. In this role, you serve as a core technical contributor, promoting critical technology solutions across multiple domains and business functions, ensuring that our foreign exchange trading and services platforms effectively support the firm’s strategic objectives and the evolving needs of our clients.
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 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
- Senior-level experience in Java backend development with JDK8+, Spring Boot, and microservice architecture.
- Expert in Core Java, multithreading, low latency, scalability, and backward compatibility.
- Skilled in managing complex codebase with a focus on performance and maintainability.
- Hands-on experience with messaging APIs, including Kafka and IBM UM MQs.
- Proficient in TDD and BDD, using mocking APIs and Cucumber.
- Strong knowledge of Oracle database design and PL/SQL.
- Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
- Ability to mentor junior developers, resolve technical issues, and support production systems.
- Strong communication skills, Ability to articulate technical solutions to Business and non technical audience.
- Demonstrated expertise in software applications and technical processes (cloud, AI/ML, etc.).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Development experience with Highly available 24/7 applications.
- Knowledge of FX Trading Application and Payments domain.
- Knowledge of Co-pilot and AI Agents to gain productivity on repeated tasks.
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.
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