Lead Software Engineer - Blockchain Developer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial and Investment Banking team, you will play a key role in an agile team dedicated to building, enhancing, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact through your contributions.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Design Peer-to-peer distributed systems and implement using multiple technology stacks.
• Familiarity with key blockchain technologies & understanding.
• Collaborate with various line of business technology teams to design and build robust and performant blockchain-based solutions.
• Design and implement blockchain supporting tools and utilities (e.g., CLI client, tools for exploring the blockchain, monitoring, benchmarking or debugging tools)
• Implement rigorous and thorough testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure.
• Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of  blockchain infrastructure
• Design and verify 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
• Build out monitoring protocols and fail-over measures.
• Collaborate with development teams to develop integration design and where appropriate prepare estimates on design and development services for integration initiatives

Required Skills 

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• 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.
• Strong familiarity with different layers, such as Ethereum, Layer2 protocols 
• Strong object-oriented programming language background in one or more of the following languages: Go, C++, Rust, Java, JavaScript 
• Experience in Developing and Designing large and complex distributed computing environments
• Proven track record of delivering software development projects 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services AWS and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with using Git or other version control software for source code management

Desired Skills 

• Financial industry experience 
• Thorough understanding of cryptographic protocols and blockchain implementations
• Good understanding in key management, custody solutions and cryptographic fundamentals
• Awareness of inter-operability solutions. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Self-starter that requires minimal supervision 
• Flexible / adaptable - able to work with diverse groups of people including all levels of business management 
• Excellent project management and facilitation skills