Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Java, Kotlin

This is a senior full-stack developer role. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in both backend and frontend technologies, with a particular emphasis on server-side development. However, we also welcome applications from frontend specialists who have meaningful exposure to backend systems.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Transact platform team, you will be responsible for building and supporting both client-side and server-side functionality for JPMorganChase’s Transact platform. The platform delivers both freely convertible and restricted market FX across global branches, streamlining workflows and improving liquidity management. With its intuitive interface and sophisticated capabilities, Transact empowers clients to efficiently manage their foreign exchange risk. From execution to confirmations, settlements, and payments, clients can address their FX exposure in a way that allows them to focus on their core business activities, rather than treating FX as an operational overhead.
 

Job responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and troubleshoots both server-side and client-side solutions, applying innovative approaches to solve complex technical challenges.
• Creates secure, high-quality production code for both backend services and UI components, ensuring seamless integration and performance.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for distributed applications, ensuring both backend and frontend design constraints are met.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in system and user data, using these insights to enhance coding hygiene, architecture, and usability.

• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies across the stack.

   

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Professional experience building production-level software.
• Experience designing and building scalable server-side applications using Java, Kotlin, or other JVM-based languages.
• Experience building web services with the Spring framework.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and React, and experience building high-performance web applications.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Experience with test-driven development, modern source control, and continuous integration practices.
• Familiarity with modern frameworks, libraries, tools, and languages across the technology stack.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Strong foundations in computer science.