Lead Software Engineer - Java & React

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Consumer & Community Banking

Lead Software Engineer role focused on executing creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting within the Consumer & Community Banking division. The role emphasizes driving team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while ensuring secure coding, testing, and validation standards. Requires advanced proficiency in Java, React, microservices, Kafka, SQL, RDBMS, NoSQL, and modern SDLC/DevOps/Cloud platforms. Strong understanding of responsible AI use and coaching engineers on safe adoption is critical.

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 complex technical problems
  2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others and AI agents
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems by leveraging AI judiciously
  4. Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
  5. Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Advanced proficiency in Java and microservices using Spring Boot / Spring Cloud & React for UI Build
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven/distributed system patterns.
  • Solid expertise in SQL, RDBMS, and NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra) with strong data modeling and performance fundamentals.
  • Engineering practices across SDLC, including CI/CD, automation, resiliency, and security.
  • Experience with modern platforms/tooling: AWS, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Agile, DevOps/SRE, and Cloud Foundry.
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
  • Ability to own components end-to-end, collaborate effectively in large teams, and apply strong financial services domain knowledge.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-assisted engineering practices
  • AI-assisted code review/refactoring
  • AI-assisted development and automation capabilities
  • approved AI-assisted software development tools
  • responsible AI use in engineering workflows
  • data sensitivity considerations
  • secure handling of inputs/outputs
  • adherence to resiliency and security expectations
  • coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption