Lead Java Engineer: AI-Powered Spring Boot Architect

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

On-site health center

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and secure production code within a scalable, AI-assisted engineering environment.

You will contribute to architecture, data modeling, and robust CI/CD pipelines across Java/Spring Microservices and RESTful APIs. The role emphasizes responsible AI use, secure coding, and mentoring engineers on safe adoption of AI tools while delivering high-quality software for enterprise needs.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience with Java, Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data), RESTful APIs, and Microservices architectures.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing data models for relational databases.
• Experience with using relational database like MS SQL Server.
• Experience working on Cloud platform (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• 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 support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Bitbucket

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and secure production code within a scalable, AI-assisted engineering environment.

You will contribute to architecture, data modeling, and robust CI/CD pipelines across Java/Spring Microservices and RESTful APIs. The role emphasizes responsible AI use, secure coding, and mentoring engineers on safe adoption of AI tools while delivering high-quality software for enterprise needs.