Lead Software Engineer - Blockchain (Public or Permissioned blockchain platforms)
About The Position
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, within Commercial and Investment Banking team, you will play a key role in an agile team dedicated to building, enhancing, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact through your contributions.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Significant hands-on software engineering experience, including Java Spring Boot and enterprise-grade systems
- Experience building on public or permissioned blockchain platforms (e.g., Solana, Ethereum/EVM, Hyperledger, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, Canton)
- Understanding of cryptographic protocols, smart contracts and key management
- Proficiency with enterprise development toolchains: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing
- Solid understanding of architecture and design across distributed, enterprise systems
- Proven track record delivering complex software projects into production
- Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills; ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups
- Demonstrated coaching and mentoring capability; ability to elevate team engineering practices
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures
- Exposure to front office or trade-processing environments within financial services
- Experience with Python and broader web technologies
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for a global team building blockchain/DLT applications and services
- Design and develop scalable, secure services using Java Spring Boot, TypeScript/NestJS, ReactJS, Python.
- Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and performance
- Own end-to-end delivery: requirements, architecture, implementation, CI/CD, deployment, and production support
- Partner with platform teams to advance developer experience, toolchains, and cloud-hosted blockchain services
- Collaborate closely with Front Office, Product, Operations, and Core Blockchain teams to imagine, experiment, and execute on transformative DLT use cases
- Engage with industry groups and regulators as adoption grows; contribute to shaping the evolving industry and regulatory landscape
- Coach and mentor engineers; grow the team’s technical output, quality, and repeatability
- Advocate for DLT across the firm and externally. Represent the team to senior leaders in CIB Markets.
- Input into the wider technology innovation agenda including Generative AI, Agents and Quantum
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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