Lead Java Engineer — AI‑Enhanced, Cloud‑Native Backend

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in the Asset & Wealth Management space. You will drive development of market-leading tech, ensure security and scalability, and act as a core technical contributor across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted coding practices, enterprise tooling, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver robust software solutions in production environments.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 5+ years of practical software engineering experience.
• Proven design, development, testing and production operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting.
• Delivers secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Drives enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and delivery speed.
• Applies SDLC toolchain knowledge including AI-assisted development and automation.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues for stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams on designs and architectures.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

SQL

NoSQL

Kafka

IBM MQ

Kubernetes

Redis

AWS

Swagger/OpenAPI

AI-assisted tools

Cloud-native

Security & monitoring

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

AWS

Kafka

IBM MQ

Kubernetes

Redis

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in the Asset & Wealth Management space. You will drive development of market-leading tech, ensure security and scalability, and act as a core technical contributor across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted coding practices, enterprise tooling, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver robust software solutions in production environments.