Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Java/back-end

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

Senior Lead Software Engineer role focused on Java/Back-End development within JPMorgan Chase's Consumer & Community Banking division. The role involves mentoring agile teams, driving product design, and leading the architecture and development of Java/Spring-based APIs and shared components. A significant aspect of the role is driving the adoption and governance of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed, while ensuring responsible AI use and validating AI outputs.

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

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
  • Experience with strong architecture, design patterns, engineering best practices, analysis, design, security fundamentals, secure coding practices, and code review skills for internet applications.
  • Experience with unit, integration, contract testing; experience with test automation frameworks and pipelines (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test).
  • Expertise in underlying third‑party SDKs/components and protocols: AWS SDKs, HTTP connections, IBM MQ, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, GraalVM, TLS 1.3.
  • Proficiency in ​service development using REST and SOAP, strong API design fundamentals; JSON/XML messaging and SOA.
  • Knowledge of Databases and Data access frameworks like MyBatis, Hibernate, Oracle, Cassandra, CockroachDB.
  • Ability to build with cloud‑native microservices at scale: with Kubernetes/Docker/EKS, service discovery, configuration management; AWS services including NLB, ALB, SQS, Redis, S3, Route 53, API/NAT Gateways, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC; IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (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 senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
  • Familiarity with Messaging and event streaming API's (Kafka), caching (Redis), and familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL datastores.
  • Exposure with observability tooling and practices (metrics, tracing, logs) and performance benchmarking at scale.
  • Proficiency in Network/Security: Kerberos, TLS 1.3, OAuth2, ADFS, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy, SpiderMesh, OWASP.
  • Proficiency in Frameworks and libraries: Spring/Spring Boot, SLF4J, Jackson, Hystrix, JMS.

Nice to have

  • Experience developing shared libraries/frameworks adopted by multiple product teams.
  • Experience in large‑scale enterprise or financial services.

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
  • responsible AI use in engineering workflows
  • validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
  • coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls