Lead Software Engineer - Java/aws/kafka/streaming

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Plano, TX +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Lead Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on delivering technology products within the Consumer and Community Banking - Banking and Wealth Management / Data Technology Team. The role involves technical guidance, developing and debugging production code, driving product design decisions, and acting as a subject matter expert. Requires 5+ years of experience in software engineering, proficiency in languages like Java and frameworks such as Spring, Kafka Streams, Flink, and experience with cloud-native practices and agile methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  2. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  4. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  5. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Spring framework
  • Kafka Streams
  • Flink
  • Data Lake
  • Low Latency stores
  • automation
  • continuous delivery
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • cloud
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • mobile
  • financial services industry IT systems
  • cloud native

Nice to have

  • Apache Flink
  • Kafka
  • Confluent Cloud
  • Petabyte scale environments
  • streaming billions of events per day
  • ReactJS
  • Angular
  • test-driven development
  • unit/UI test frameworks
  • Jest
  • Selenium
  • Web driver IO
  • React Testing Library
  • Mock Service Worker
  • Playwright

What the JD emphasized

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and framework(s) (i.e., Java, Spring framework, Kafka Streams, Flink, Data Lake & Low Latency stores)
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
  • Practical cloud native experience