Lead eSoftware Engineer - DevOps

About This Role

Leading the eSoftware engineering efforts within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Electronic Trading Technology (ETT) team at JPMorgan Chase, you will enhance, build, and deliver market-leading technology products securely and scalably. This role involves developing and running latency-sensitive services under real-time constraints, focusing on strong engineering discipline in design, implementation, testing, and production readiness to ensure predictable and resilient changes during market hours.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate releases across environments (UAT - production), ensuring readiness checks, clear change documentation, stakeholder communication, and reliable rollback plans
• Own production reliability and latency for algo/execution services, including post-trading hours releases, operational readiness, and market-hours support posture
• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Manage and own UAT environment provisioning and configuration for on-prem hosts, supporting uptime, deployments, environment triage, and release readiness in coordination with partner teams
• Build and improve CI/CD and release engineering for Java services with automated builds, artifact/versioning discipline, promotion across environments, gated releases, and fast rollback
• Partner with infrastructure/networking teams on Linux and network performance considerations that impact latency, jitter, and stability
• Drive incident management excellence in knowing rapid triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation to reduce recurrence and MTTR
• Engineer for resiliency with HA/DR design, failover testing, dependency isolation, and capacity
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced development experience in one or more programming language(s) (i.e., Python, Java, or equivalent)
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Familiar with AI-assisted development tools in the development lifecycle (and ability to evaluate outputs critically)
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security