Lead Distributed Systems Engineer

Job Description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Distributed Systems Engineer at JPMorganChase , you’ll serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will be responsible for building and evolving critical backend platforms and services that operate reliably at scale across multiple systems, regions, and environments—supporting the firm’s business objectives.

We are seeking a dedicated professional who is a strong team player, self-motivated, and driven to achieve engineering excellence on short timescales.

This is an extremely hands-on, delivery-focused, technical position involving deep analysis, coding, testing, performance tuning, and close partnership with product, SRE/operations, and end users. Prior experience in financial services is desirable, but curiosity, strong fundamentals, and the ability to learn quickly are just as important. The role involves a high degree of teamwork, technical design reviews, and peer interaction.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions : leads design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build resilient distributed solutions and break down complex production problems.
• Builds secure, high-quality production services : develops and maintains low-latency and/or high-throughput services, background workers, and APIs with strong correctness and reliability guarantees.
• Designs for scale and reliability : produces architecture and design artifacts for complex distributed applications (e.g., service decomposition, data consistency patterns, caching, failover) and ensures design constraints are met in implementation.
• Ensures operational excellence : owns systems end-to-end including observability (metrics/logs/traces), incident response, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Works with large, diverse datasets : gathers, analyzes, and synthesizes signals from production telemetry and business data to drive continuous improvement and to inform reliability and scalability work.
• Identifies systemic issues : proactively detects hidden failure modes (hot partitions, thundering herds, cascading failures, backpressure gaps) and drives improvements to coding hygiene, testing strategy, and architecture.
• Collaborates across teams : partners with platform, infrastructure, security, and dependent application teams to deliver well-integrated capabilities and clear service contracts.
• Contributes to engineering communities : participates in communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies and raises the bar through mentoring and design/code review.
• Builds inclusive culture : contributes to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, Capabilities & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Recent, hands-on experience building distributed systems in one or more modern object-oriented languages.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, consensus basics, idempotency, concurrency, retries/timeouts, leader election, partitioning, replication , and failure handling.
• Practical experience in system design , application development, testing, and operational stability in production environments.
• Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment, including familiarity with database querying and data modeling (SQL and/or NoSQL).
• Solid knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and engineering best practices (code review, automated testing, secure coding, release management).
• Working knowledge of agile methodologies and modern delivery practices such as CI/CD , application resiliency, and security controls.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills

• Strong technology generalist – experience building highly performant and resilient enterprise applications used within a high performance/realtime environment.
• Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy etc).
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• A desire to learn more about the Financial products.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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 FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

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.

Lead Distributed Systems Engineer