Lead Full-Stack Java Engineer | AI-Driven Dev & Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Chicago is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within Corporate Technology to join an agile team delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable way.

You will drive architectural decisions for distributed systems and contribute to AI-assisted engineering practices. The role requires 5+ years in software engineering, hands-on design and production delivery, and strong experience with Spring Boot, Java, Kafka, React/TypeScript, and REST APIs.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years' applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Building production microservices with Spring Boot and Java (21+), including modern features.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, Avro, and Schema Registry.
• Building production React SPAs with TypeScript and Redux Toolkit.
• Expertise in RESTful API Design and microservices patterns.
• Proficiency in testing frameworks (JUnit 5, Spring Boot Test, Playwright).
• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools and secure coding practices.

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.
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems including event-driven pipelines, CQRS patterns, and real-time data streaming
• 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 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<br/>support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team

Skills

Spring Boot & Java

Event-driven architecture

React & TypeScript

Kubernetes

AI-assisted development tools

CI/CD & Security

Agile methodologies

Tools

Apache Kafka

Spring Boot

TypeScript

React

Redux Toolkit

Playwright

JUnit 5

MongoDB

OpenAPI 3.0

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Chicago is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within Corporate Technology to join an agile team delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable way.

You will drive architectural decisions for distributed systems and contribute to AI-assisted engineering practices. The role requires 5+ years in software engineering, hands-on design and production delivery, and strong experience with Spring Boot, Java, Kafka, React/TypeScript, and REST APIs.