Lead Software Engineer - Reference Data Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Chicago seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design, development, and delivery of secure, scalable data platforms in a modern data mesh environment across AWS, Databricks, and on‑premises.

You will own features end‑to‑end, mentor engineers, and champion AI‑assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, reliability, and performance of real‑time data pipelines.

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
• Expert-level Java proficiency with Spring Boot/Spring Cloud/Spring Data/Spring Security and AWS services

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting with ability to tackle complex problems
• Develops secure, high‑quality production code and reviews peers' work
• Drives enterprise AI‑assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, speed, and reliability
• Applies SDLC tools and automation to improve value of automation
• Designs and develops Java/Spring Boot microservices for real‑time data delivery
• Owns features end‑to‑end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring
• Optimizes performance, scalability, and cost of microservices and data pipelines with thorough testing
• Participates in design/code reviews and remediates technical debt
• Supports production and incident response, and shares knowledge via runbooks/docs

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Kafka

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Microservices

Data streaming

SQL/NoSQL

Education

Bachelor's in CS

Formal software training

Tools

Git/Bitbucket

Docker

Terraform

JIRA

Maven

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 Corporate Sector's Reference Data Engineering, 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. This group powers one of the teams' most critical data‑driven capabilities through a modern data mesh architecture delivering curated, domain‑driven data products in real‑time across the firm. Operating at enterprise scale across AWS, Databricks, and on‑premises, Reference Data Integration (RDI) manages multi‑tenant data delivery with managed‑service enablement. The platform uses event‑driven streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming) for high‑performance real‑time data delivery and is evolving AI/ML‑driven data quality and reconciliation capabilities. Join our engineering team to architect intelligent, self‑healing data platforms driving the next generation of financial infrastructure

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise‑authorised AI‑assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI‑assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root‑cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorised AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realised by automation.
• Executes creative software solutions through innovative system design and development. Approaches complex data infrastructure challenges with ability to think beyond conventional approaches
• Develops secure, high‑quality production code. Reviews and debugs code written by others. Maintains and elevates engineering standards
• Designs and develops Java/Spring Boot microservices for real‑time data product delivery and platform capabilities
• Owns assigned features end‑to‑end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Optimises performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of microservices and data pipelines while writing comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end‑to‑end) to ensure platform reliability and data integrity
• Participates in design and code reviews. Proactively identifies and remediates technical debt and helps with production support and incident response.
• Contributes to team knowledge sharing: documentation, runbooks, tech talks

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Drives team adoption of enterprise‑authorised AI‑assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI‑assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root‑cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorised AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realised by automation.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expert‑level Java proficiency. Deep knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, and Spring Security (JWT/OAuth2), Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and AWS Services in public cloud infrastructure, with experience building cloud‑native or cloud‑ready applications using AWS
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and design patterns
• Production‑level experience with AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, Kinesis. Hands‑on with databases: NoSQL (MongoDB), columnar/analytics (Snowflake, Databricks), relational SQL
• Experience with version control (Git/Bitbucket), CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) so you can be proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile methodologies, and continuous delivery
• Proficiency in Java/J2EE and REST APIs. Experience building event‑driven Microservices and Kafka (Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming) and its event‑driven architecture and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Hands‑on experience with system design, application development, testing with proficiency in GIT/Bitbucket, JIRA, Maven
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight. Clear articulation of technical concepts in a self‑motivated role that requires high ownership of work quality and delivery

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Python with data engineering experience including exposure to Databricks and a a background in data infrastructure or reference data platforms
• Experience in Platform or Product Development and contribution to open‑source projects or public technical content
• AWS Certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or higher)
• Experience with Spring Cloud (Netflix OSS stack: Eureka, Zuul, Hystrix)
• Experience building or maintaining high‑scale, real‑time data systems. Familiarity with data product delivery and data mesh patterns
• Experience in multi‑region or disaster recovery scenarios
• Familiarity with managed service architecture patterns