Lead Full-Stack Engineer - Java/React on AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and delivery of trusted technology products within Card Technology & Rewards.

You will be a core technical contributor on an agile team, building secure, scalable software across multiple business functions. You will lead development of modern web interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, implement microservices in Java with Spring Boot, and shape API integrations (RESTful and GraphQL).

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced experience building user interfaces with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React
• Proficiency with frontend tooling and build systems (Webpack, Vite, npm)
• Strong understanding of RESTful and GraphQL APIs and integrating with backend services
• Demonstrated design sensibility and attention to visual detail
• Working knowledge of testing tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress
• Ability to convert wireframes and Figma designs into clean, maintainable code
• Hands-on experience designing and developing microservices and RESTful APIs with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience with customer-facing applications

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
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Contributes to the engineering of application infrastructure that can be deployed seamlessly on AWS or private cloud, ensuring portability, scalability, and reliability, and cost efficiency across multi-cloud platforms
• Demonstrates proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

Skills

Frontend development (HTML/CSS/Java/Js

React frontend

Frontend tooling (Webpack/Vite/npm)

RESTful & GraphQL APIs

Java & Spring Boot microservices

Software lifecycle & reliability

Customer-facing applications

Wireframes to code

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

AWS

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and delivery of trusted technology products within Card Technology & Rewards.

You will be a core technical contributor on an agile team, building secure, scalable software across multiple business functions. You will lead development of modern web interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, implement microservices in Java with Spring Boot, and shape API integrations (RESTful and GraphQL).