Lead Software Engineer - Backend/java/cloud

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Lead Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase focused on backend Java development within the Consumer & Community Banking organization. The role involves designing, developing, and troubleshooting technology solutions, with a focus on secure, stable, and scalable delivery. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, identifying automation opportunities, leading vendor evaluations, and driving communities of practice for new technologies. Requires 5+ years of Java experience, Spring Boot, REST API, Kafka, and cloud infrastructure knowledge, with a demonstrated proficiency in AI tools like Co-Pilot and LLMs, and in-depth knowledge 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
  • REST API
  • Kafka
  • Cloud infostructure experience
  • Event-driven architecture experience
  • Artificial Intelligence(e.g., Co-Pilot, LLM)
  • financial services industry

Nice to have

  • AWS experience
  • Terraform experience
  • Blue-Green/Canary deployments
  • observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
  • Cassandra
  • performance optimization and trouble shooting

What the JD emphasized

  • Java
  • Spring boot
  • REST API
  • Kafka
  • Cloud