Lead Software Engineer - Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase Bank; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase Bank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Hyderabad, India, within Consumer and Community Banking. You will join an agile team to build secure, scalable technology products and act as a core technical contributor across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes delivering production-ready code, guiding AI-assisted development, and driving architectural decisions with internal teams and external partners.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of practical experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in back-end technologies (Java/Spring Boot) with microservices; front-end skills for full-stack roles (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/React/Angular).
• Ability to solve design challenges independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), RESTful APIs, and web services.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions with ability to tackle non-routine problems.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews peers' code.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality, speed, and reliability.
• Applies SDLC toolchain knowledge to improve automation value.
• Leads architecture evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

Microservices

REST APIs

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

SQL/NoSQL

CI/CD

AI-assisted tooling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Apache Spark

Apache Flink

Docker

Kubernetes

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 and 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 break down technical problems
• Develops secure 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
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• 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.
• 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
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Led design and delivery of Kafka-based event streaming platforms/services in high-throughput (high TPS) environments; deep experience with event-driven architecture patterns and distributed systems reliability. Proven ability to lead technical direction: drive architecture decisions, write/own design docs, align stakeholders, and deliver through ambiguity.
• Experience improving operability (SLOs/SLAs, on-call readiness, monitoring, incident response, postmortems) for streaming systems. Hands-on experience building and operating high-volume data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (Spark SQL, Structured Streaming) and/or Apache Flink (DataStream/Table API) in production.

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.
• AWS certification.

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