Lead Software Engineer - Blockchain and Digital Assets, Java

About the position

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Blockchain technology team, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products with a focus on security, stability, and scalability. 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.

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, designs and implements microservices architectures using industry-standard technologies and frameworks. Monitor and optimize the performance of microservices, ensuring high availability and responsiveness.
• Identifies opportunities to conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Implements rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Develops, designs and verifies cryptographic protocols deployed on the blockchain. Design blockchain solutions, such that it can support benchmark use-cases of decentralized applications, with proven and verified cryptographic protocols
• Adds 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 for traditional distributed systems
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java, JavaScript, Solidity, Python, Go
• Proficiency in developing blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Hyperledger
• Proficient in object oriented programming language. Hands-on experience with application programming, backend API development and distributed microservices infrastructure
• Advanced understanding of the cryptographic principles underpinning blockchain technologies such as encryption algorithms, key management, key wallets
• Demonstrated proficiency to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud infrastructure services experience such as Amazon, Google, or Microsoft

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing and writing smart contracts with Solidity using Hardhat, Truffle, Slither scanning etc
• Hands-on experience with AWS, EKS, Docker
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment.