Java and AWS Senior Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is looking for a Senior Lead Software Engineer in New York, New York to be part of the Consumer and Community Banking Connected Commerce team. In this role, you will enhance, build, and deliver technology products with a strong focus on security and scalability.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly with Java 21 and cloud services, and be able to guide teams through complex technical challenges. Join us to make a significant business impact in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems.
• Experience in developing secure production code.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to support business and technical teams.
• Develop high-quality production code and review code.
• Drive decisions influencing product design and functionality.

Skills

Java 21

Apache Kafka

SQL

RESTful backend applications

Microservices

AWS cloud services

Terraform

API services

Domain Driven Design Patterns

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

AWS EKS

AWS EC2

AWS ECS

EventBridge

Lambda

Route53

AWS S3

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 Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking Connected Commerce team, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your contributions and capabilities will promote significant business impact, as you apply your deep technical expertise and problem‑solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

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
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide 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 5+ years applied experience
• Experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise with development experience in Java 21 with building RESTful backend applications using Spring Boot
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining high‑th‑ought put low latency data pipelines using Apache Kafka, KSQL and Kafka Streams
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases such as Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, etc.
• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining API services, with knowledge of Microservices with Domain Driven DesignPatterns
• Experience working with tools like Terraform to provision AWS cloud services
• Experience with AWS EKS, AWS EC2, AWS ECS, EventBridge, Lambda, Route53, and AWS S3
• 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
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with banking and digital wallets
• AWS Certification