Lead Software Engineer - Java/spring

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Tampa, FL +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Software Engineer role focused on developing and enhancing technology products within the Commercial & Investment Bank. The role involves executing software solutions, designing, developing, and troubleshooting, with a strong emphasis on driving the adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices. This includes coaching engineers on safe and compliant AI adoption, validating AI outputs, and ensuring responsible AI use in workflows.

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

  • Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Proficient in coding in Java, Spring Boot, JPA, SQL, REST
  • Experience with event driven architecture using Kafka
  • Experience building RESTful backend applications (Spring Boot) and solid relational enterprise databases (Oracle) experience
  • Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD e.g. Jenkins
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
  • 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
  • Solid understanding of cross cutting concerns such as Application Resiliency, and Security

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Groovy and Gradle
  • Strong understanding of containerization technologies such as Kubernetes or Docker
  • Exposure to AI/ML technologies – especially familiarity with model training and inference
  • Exposure to AWS cloud technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 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