Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain
May 19
May 19, 2026

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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 JavaScriptÂ
- 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
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Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain at JPMorgan Chase & Co: FAQ
Where is the Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain role at JPMorgan Chase & Co based?
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What skills are required for the Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain role at JPMorgan Chase & Co?
This Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain role is associated with the following skills and technologies:
- Full Time
- Developer
- Java
- Engineering
- Rust
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JPMorgan Chase & Co is hiring this Lead Software Engineer - Java / Digital Asset / Blockchain as a full time position.
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