Lead Software Engineer- Java Back End, AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, and delivery of trusted market-leading technology products within a secure, scalable framework.

You will guide cross-functional teams, craft backend architectures in Java/Spring and Python, and shape AI-enabled engineering practices while partnering with business stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Experience leading large cross-functional technologist teams.
• Expert-level backend engineering in Java (Spring) and/or Python with SQL/NoSQL data modeling.
• Deep AWS experience to design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on Kafka experience with streaming patterns.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems concepts and failure modes.
• Strong CI/CD and test engineering practices.
• Excellent communicator across engineering and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading multi-organization adoption of AI-enabled engineering operating models with governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and direction to business and engineering teams.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' work.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering practices across teams with measurable validation standards.
• Apply SDLC tooling knowledge to improve automation value at scale.
• Influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and contribute to firmwide engineering frameworks.

Skills

Java backend

Spring Boot

Python

SQL/NoSQL modeling

AWS cloud

Kafka

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Communication

AI governance

Responsible AI

Education

Formal software engineering training/certification

Tools

AWS ECS/EKS

Aurora/DynamoDB/S3

CloudWatch

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 Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
• 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
• Expert-level backend engineering in Java (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Hibernate/JPA) and/or Python; strong SQL and data modeling across relational and NoSQL systems.
• Deep AWS experience: ECS/EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, CloudWatch — able to design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems end-to-end.
• Hands-on Apache Kafka experience: topic design, consumer group management, exactly-once delivery, and stream processing patterns.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, CAP trade-offs, idempotency, distributed transactions, and failure modes.
• Strong CI/CD and test engineering practice: you build the pipelines and write tests alongside the team.
• Excellent communicator — able to move fluidly between engineering teams and business/operations stakeholders in the same conversation.
• Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
• Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Proven experience delivering in a regulated environment (financial services preferred) with working knowledge of audit, entitlement, and compliance requirements.