Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack - Java, React, AWS

Testing Site - JPMC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Payments unit to drive architecture and deliver scalable solutions.

You will be a core technical contributor, owning multi-area design, coding, reviews, and performance tuning while guiding teams and external partners. Strong leadership, communication, and hands-on cloud and container experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Strong system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced hands-on experience with JavaScript, ReactJS, and Java ecosystems.
• Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, SQL/Hibernate, and Kafka.
• Ability to translate wireframes and Figma designs into clean, maintainable code.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Good understanding of networking technologies and collaborative work.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills with senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews others' code.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation for stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and teams on architectural designs.
• Leads communities of practice to promote new technologies.
• Contributes to team culture with opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Proactively solve problems and learn new technologies.

Skills

JavaScript

ReactJS

Java

Spring Boot

REST API

SQL/Hibernate

Kafka

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Networking

Communication

Team collaboration

Operational stability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Terraform

ReactJS

Java

Spring Boot

REST API

SQL/Hibernate

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Payments team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Proactively problem solves with eagerness and curiosity to learn new technologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced hands on experience with JavaScript, ReactJS, or similar scripting language
• Hands-on programming/application development experience Java, Spring Boot, REST/API Proficiency in: SQL/Hibernate, Messaging (Kafka), application performance testing and tuning
• Ability to convert wireframes and Figma designs into clean, maintainable code
• Hands on knowledge of AWS offerings (ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda ,Terraform etc)
• Good knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes
• Ability to troubleshoot networking technologies and resolve common issues
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in large teams.
• Hands on experience identifying and implement innovative solutions to meet business needs

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to real-world products
• Financial Services Industry or Payments experience