Senior Lead Software Engineer Markets Technology

J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan

Software Engineering, IT · Full-time

London, UK

Posted on Oct 31, 2026
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 Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the CIB – Markets Technology, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities
  • Accountable for all aspects of 1+ technical components including design, code quality, stability, scalability, stability, compliance, vulnerabilities, etc
  • Partners with the business aligned teams and other engineers contributing to the components to support new change requests and requirements
  • Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  • Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Proven leadership delivering end-to-end, complex initiatives spanning multiple applications and workflows, with experience managing teams directly and/or leading through influence in a matrixed environment
  • Advanced proficiency in Java incl hands-on technical coding knowledge — actively codes and can demonstrate sound architecture, design, coding standards, and resiliency practices (these will be a major focus during interviews).
  • Excellent communication skills — able to clearly articulate technical concepts to engineers and provide crisp, executive-ready updates to senior stakeholders
  • Demonstrated conflict resolution and stakeholder negotiation skills
  • Proven experience enabling responsible use of approved AI-assisted dev tools, setting standards to validate outputs (correctness, performance, security/resiliency), and coaching engineers on data sensitivity and secure handling.
  • Practical enterprise-scale experience incl designing and running on cloud platforms
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.
10+ years experienced, hands-on tech lead with component ownership experience to drive and oversee significant business impact and tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications
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