Lead Software Engineer - Java & AWS

Next Frontier Capital; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Bengaluru is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Consumer & Community Banking Technology Team. You will be a core technical contributor, delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable manner.

The role emphasizes designing and building software across multiple domains, mentoring teams, and advancing modern engineering practices in a large corporate environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in system design and development.
• Proficiency with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD tooling, and modern databases.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and applicability for existing systems
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to promote new technologies
• Contributes to team culture of diversity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Microservice architecture

AWS

Terraform

GitHub / CI-CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Data SQL / Graph SQL

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS / EKS

CloudWatch / Observability

GitHub Actions

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Technology Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• 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
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• 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
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Core Skills - Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservice architecture, AWS, Terraform, Github, Copilot, Jenkins, Data Science, Graph SQL
• Databases: Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra) and Graph SQL.
• Containerization: Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes).
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise with monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch) and proven capability to lead high-performing teams - driving innovation, maintaining strong team health, and owning the end-to-end team performance cycle.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• AWS Certification (e.g., Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional, Developer – Associate).
• Exposure to cloud technologies

Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team