Lead Software Engineer

JP Morgan Chase; Fairfax (DE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the Corporate Sector seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java/Springboot/Kubernetes to join an agile team delivering high‑performing, secure technology products.

You will provide technical guidance, design and implement production‑grade code, influence product and operations, and work across cloud‑native architectures, Kafka, Cassandra, and observability tools to ensure low latency, scalability, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in Java, Springboot, Microservices, RESTful API and Kubernetes.
• Experience in API Gateways, Apache Kafka, Cassandra or other NoSQL DB, exposure to cloud infrastructure.
• Observability tools such as Splunk, Kibana, AppDynamics or Dynatrace.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with cloud, AI, ML focus.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little oversight.
• Practical cloud native experience.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure, high‑quality production code and reviews peers' code.
• Drives decisions influencing product design, functionality, and operations.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in one or more focus areas.
• Contributes to the engineering community with firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices.
• Influences decisions to adopt leading-edge technologies.
• Promotes diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

RESTful API

Kubernetes

API Gateways

Apache Kafka

Cassandra

Cloud

AI/ML

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Splunk

Kibana

AppDynamics

Dynatrace

AWS

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java/Springboot/Kubernetes at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your expertise and contributions promote significant business impact, utilizing deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across multiple technologies and applications. This position is ideal for someone passionate about solving business problems through innovative engineering practices. The team leverages a variety of cutting-edge tools and technologies to optimize critical business processes, including low latency and high throughput API development, cloud technologies, and big data solutions.

Excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The team is using variety of latest tools and technologies to address critical business processes. This includes low latency & high throughput API development, cloud technologies, big data solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) including Java, Springboot, Microservices, RESTful API and Kubernetes
• Experiencein API Gateways, Apache Kafka, Cassandra or other NoSQL DB, exposure to cloud infrastructure
• Expertise with observability tools such as Splunk, Kibana, AppDynamics or Dynatrace
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS public cloud
• Spark
• Python