Lead Java Engineer - AI, Spring Boot & Kafka

JPMorganChase; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 138,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Chicago, IL is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive Java-based solutions, focusing on AI-enabled development with Spring Boot and Kafka. You will design, implement, test, and troubleshoot complex systems with a strong emphasis on quality, security, and performance.

The role leads a global feature team, collaborates with Product Owners and Operations, and advances architectural decisions, observability, and deployment reliability across development, staging, and production

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, testing, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, reviews and debugs code written by others, and ensures solutions meet architectural standards and automated quality requirements
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards 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
• Leads a global feature team by setting technical direction, supporting pair programming, mentoring engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, and partnering with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams
• Identifies opportunities to improve application stability, observability, code quality, and deployment reliability while supporting applications across development, staging, and production environments

Tools

Java 21+

Spring Boot 3.x

Spring Framework 6.x

Kafka

React 18+

TypeScript

Oracle SQL

PostgreSQL

Hibernate/JPA

OpenAPI 3.x

RESTful APIs

AI-assisted development tools

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform/Pulumi

JUnit 5

Mockito

Testcontainers

Pact

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Redis

GraphQL

Apache Spark

Flink

Job description

JPMorganChase in Chicago, IL is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive Java-based solutions, focusing on AI-enabled development with Spring Boot and Kafka. You will design, implement, test, and troubleshoot complex systems with a strong emphasis on quality, security, and performance.

The role leads a global feature team, collaborates with Product Owners and Operations, and advances architectural decisions, observability, and deployment reliability across development, staging, and production