Lead Java Backend Engineer: Kafka, AWS & AI-Driven Dev

JP Morgan Chase; Fairfax (DE); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Backend Lead Software Engineer specialized in Kafka and AWS within Consumer and Community Banking. You will be a core technical contributor shaping scalable, secure systems and driving AI-assisted engineering practices.

You'll lead design discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-volume data processing and reliable microservices in a distributed cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Cloud platforms experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and distributed systems.
• Experience leading AI-assisted development tools and practices.
• Ability to drive architecture decisions and stakeholder alignment.
• Experience building and operating high-volume data processing pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and complex problem solving across teams.
• Develops secure production code and reviews others' code.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices for code quality and delivery speed.
• Applies SDLC tools to improve automation and value.
• Leads design reviews with vendors and internal teams on architecture.

Skills

Java

Springboot

Node.js

REST APIs

WebSockets

JSON

AWS

Azure

GCP

Distributed systems

Microservices

AI-assisted development

SLOs/SLAs

On-call

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Backend Lead Software Engineer specialized in Kafka and AWS within Consumer and Community Banking. You will be a core technical contributor shaping scalable, secure systems and driving AI-assisted engineering practices.

You'll lead design discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-volume data processing and reliable microservices in a distributed cloud environment.