Lead Software Engineer Java AWS Kafa

JPMorganChase; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Hyderabad seeks a Lead Software Engineer to contribute to secure, scalable technology products in Consumer & Community Banking. You will be a core technical contributor delivering robust production code and shaping engineering practices across cloud and AI-enabled workflows.

You will lead design reviews, collaborate with vendors and internal teams, and mentor engineers while advancing secure coding, automated testing, and resilient services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with formal training or certification.
• Proficiency in Java/Spring Boot and Node.js for microservices; front-end basics with React/Angular.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and RESTful services.
• Hands-on with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum and SDLC.
• Experience leading AI-assisted development tools and validating AI outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI, security, and resiliency.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and debugging.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews others’ code.
• Drives enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and speed.
• Uses SDLC tools including AI-assisted development to enhance automation.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation for stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams on architecture.

Skills

Lead software engineering

Microservices

Agile / SCRUM

Code review / debugging

AI-assisted development

Security & resiliency

Team leadership

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

RESTful APIs

AWS

Azure

GCP

React

Angular

Job description

Job Description:

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking, 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 breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proficiency in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Springboot, Node.js ) with experience building microservices-based applications; for full-stack roles, proficiency also includes front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular).
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services, WebSockets, and JSON.
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and an understanding of the software development life cycle.
• 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
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong soft skills, including presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and stakeholder management.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to drive broader impact by sharing and contributing best practices.
• Experience in the banking domain, AWS certification.

Requirements: