Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring boot, Microservices , Real time application

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; India; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in India seeks a Lead Software Engineer with Java, Springboot, and Kubernetes expertise to drive secure, scalable tech products in an agile team.

You will deliver high-throughput, low-latency services, shape architecture, and mentor engineers while leveraging cloud and big data technologies to solve complex business problems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong in design, development, testing, and operations.
• Expertise in Java, Springboot, microservices, REST APIs and Kubernetes.
• Experience with API gateways, Kafka, Cassandra or NoSQL, and cloud infra.
• Maven, Docker, Kubernetes basics; observability tools such as Splunk, Kibana, AppDynamics or Dynatrace.
• AI-assisted infrastructure workflows with validation and security focus.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to business teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure production code and reviews others' code.
• Drives decisions influencing product design and operations.
• Acts as SME in one or more focus areas.
• Uses enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate monitoring and capacity analysis.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted approaches to remediation workflows.
• Contributes to engineering community and SDLC practices.
• Influences peers on leading-edge technologies.
• Contributes to team culture of diversity and inclusion.

Skills

Java

Springboot

Microservices

RESTful API

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Apache Kafka

Cassandra

Databricks

EMR

Apache Spark

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer - Java/Springboot/Kubernetes at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your expertise and contributions promote significant business impact, utilizing deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across multiple technologies and applications. This position is ideal for someone passionate about solving business problems through innovative engineering practices. The team leverages a variety of cutting-edge tools and technologies to optimize critical business processes, including low latency and high throughput API development, cloud technologies, and big data solutions.

Excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The team is using variety of latest tools and technologies to address critical business processes. This includes low latency & high throughput API Development, Cloud Technologies, Big Data solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate monitoring and capacity analysis and documentation, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted approaches to identify recurring capacity risks and improve remediation workflows, ensuring changes are validated and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) including Java, Springboot, Microservices, RESTful API and Kubernetes
• Experiencein API Gateways, Apache Kafka, Cassandra or other NoSQL DB, exposure to cloud infrastructure
• Maven build and dependency management. Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals for deploying/supporting services
• Expertise with observability tools such as Splunk, Kibana, AppDynamics or Dynatrace.
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support infrastructure engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted recommendations before implementation, escalating when uncertain and ensuring outcomes align to resiliency, security, and auditability expectations.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.Practical cloud native experience..
• Hands-on exposure to broader Big Data ecosystems, such as Databricks, EMR, and large-scale batch or stream-processing platforms

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with AWS public cloud
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark for distributed data processing and large-scale workloads
• Proficiency in Python for automation, data processing, and service/module development

• Experience working with large datasets in distributed environments, including partitioning, performance tuning, and job reliability