Join us and shape the future of financial technology with Prime Finance Services. You’ll have the opportunity to push boundaries, deliver market-leading solutions, and grow your career in a fast-paced, global environment. Collaborate with top technologists across Hong Kong, Singapore, Glasgow, and Mumbai. We value creativity, inclusion, and technical excellence—your ideas and expertise will make a real impact. If you’re ready to lead and innovate, this is your chance to thrive.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in Prime Finance Services, you will architect and deliver cutting-edge, AI-driven workflows and solutions that add value to our business. You’ll work as part of a global team, enhancing and building trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Your role will focus on transforming our equity finance platform, partnering with diverse teams to drive business success. You will foster a culture of creativity and inclusion while tackling large-scale engineering challenges.
Job Responsibilities:
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
- Lead with an AI-driven approach in daily tasks
- Spearhead the design and development of real-time, mission-critical trading platforms using Java
- Tackle large-scale engineering challenges with technologies like Kafka
- Innovate, troubleshoot, and optimize for performance and stability
- Inspire and foster a culture of creativity, inclusion, and technical excellence
- Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions
- Drive system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Optimize low latency applications through testing and debugging
- Lead and contribute to all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Promote advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Expertise in GenAI usage
- Experience transforming Software Engineering with an AI-first approach
- Understanding of Prime Finance business, especially Securities Lending
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- Experience developing event-driven and batch Java applications in financial services
- Proficiency in Java/Spring, data structures, and performance tuning
- Solid experience with Kafka
- Proficiency in testing and debugging low latency applications
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
- Open-mindedness and willingness to learn
- Ability to work collaboratively in large teams
- Proficiency in software applications and technical processes within technical disciplines (cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- UI development experience in React JS
Why Join Us?
Be part of a global team that values creativity, inclusion, and technical excellence. You’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, grow your skills, and collaborate with talented professionals across the world.
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
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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.
