Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain
JP Morgan
5 - 10 years
London
Posted: 23/05/2026
Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management, Digital Assets Team, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
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 external vendors, startups, and 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
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Design and develop scalable, secure services utilizing Java, Spring Boot, and TDD
- Collaborate with platform teams to enhance developer experience, toolchains, and cloud-hosted blockchain services.3
- Work closely with Product, Operations, and Core Blockchain teams to innovate and execute transformative blockchain use cases.
- Strong object-oriented programming language background in Java or more of the following languages: Go, Rust or JavaScript
- Proficiency with enterprise development toolchains: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing
- Demonstrable practical cloud native experience, in particular AWS and Kubernetes.
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proven track record delivering complex software projects into production
Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills; ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups
- Hands-on knowledge of end-2-end development in web3 ecosystem – such as smart contract development, deployment, interaction with RPC providers, integrating with key management systems is a plus
- Exposure to building on public or permissioned blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum/EVM, Hyperledger, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, Canton) is a plus
- Thorough understanding of cryptographic protocols and blockchain implementations
- Good understanding in key management, custody solutions and cryptographic fundamentals is a plus
About Company
JP Morgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest and most prestigious financial institutions, headquartered in New York City. It operates in over 100 countries, providing a wide range of financial services including investment banking, asset management, commercial banking, and wealth management.The company serves corporations, governments, institutions, and individual clients, offering expertise in areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities trading, and credit management. Known for its global reach and financial strength, JP Morgan is a leader in innovation and sustainability within the banking industry.
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