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

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and delivery of trusted technology products within Card Technology & Rewards.

You will be a core technical contributor on an agile team, building secure, scalable software across multiple business functions. You will lead development of modern web interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, implement microservices in Java with Spring Boot, and shape API integrations (RESTful and GraphQL).

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced experience building user interfaces with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React
• Proficiency with frontend tooling and build systems (Webpack, Vite, npm)
• Strong understanding of RESTful and GraphQL APIs and integrating with backend services
• Demonstrated design sensibility and attention to visual detail
• Working knowledge of testing tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress
• Ability to convert wireframes and Figma designs into clean, maintainable code
• Hands-on experience designing and developing microservices and RESTful APIs with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience with customer-facing applications

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 diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Contributes to the engineering of application infrastructure that can be deployed seamlessly on AWS or private cloud, ensuring portability, scalability, and reliability, and cost efficiency across multi-cloud platforms
• Demonstrates proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

Skills

Frontend development (HTML/CSS/Java/Js

React frontend

Frontend tooling (Webpack/Vite/npm)

RESTful & GraphQL APIs

Java & Spring Boot microservices

Software lifecycle & reliability

Customer-facing applications

Wireframes to code

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

AWS

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Community Banking, Card Technology & Rewards, youare 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 diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect


• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes


• Contributes to the engineering of application infrastructure that can be deployed seamlessly on AWS or private cloud, ensuring portability, scalability, and reliability, and cost efficiency across multi-cloud platforms


• Demonstrates proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


• 8+ years of software development experience.


• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


• Advanced experience building user interfaces with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React


• Proficiency with frontend tooling and build systems (Webpack, Vite, npm)


• Strong understanding of RESTful and GraphQL APIs and integrating with backend services


• Demonstrated design sensibility and attention to visual detail


• Working knowledge of testing tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress


• Ability to convert wireframes and Figma designs into clean, maintainable code


• Hands-on experience designing and developing microservices and RESTful APIs with Java and Spring Boot


• Experience with customer-facing applications

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with micro-frontend architecture


• AWS Certified Developer or Solutions Architect or Cloud-Ops Engineer


• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, etc.)


• Exposure to AI tools for developers


• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security


• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.