Java Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · New York, NY +1 · Corporate Sector

Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase in Trust and Security, responsible for enhancing, building, and delivering technology products. The role involves executing creative software solutions, developing secure production code, identifying automation opportunities, leading vendor evaluations, and driving communities of practice. Requires 7+ years of Java/Spring Boot experience, cloud-native knowledge, and understanding of the financial services industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  4. 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
  5. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Automation
  • Continuous delivery
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • Cloud
  • Financial services industry
  • Cloud native

Nice to have

  • ECS/EKS/Lambda
  • API Gateway/ALB
  • S3
  • RDS/Aurora
  • DynamoDB
  • SQS/SNS/Kinesis
  • CloudWatch
  • Secrets Manager/Parameter Store
  • IAM
  • KMS
  • Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI
  • OpenTelemetry
  • distributed tracing
  • structured logging
  • event-driven design
  • messaging
  • streaming architectures

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience
  • Java (e.g., Java 11/17+)
  • Spring Boot (or similar frameworks)
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
  • Practical cloud native experience