Senior Backend Architect: Java, Kafka & AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care coverage

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorganChase & Co. in New York, NY, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to shape and build secure, scalable back-end platforms. You will lead design, write production code, and guide delivery across teams on modern engineering practices.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture direction, and own production operations for mission-critical services, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Expert proficiency in Java (Java 17+), including concurrency, collections, and performance tuning/profiling.
• Hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems with Apache Kafka and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of distributed, event-driven back-end services (Java, Kafka, AWS), from concept through production support.
• Set architecture direction and standards for scalability, reliability, and observability across services.
• Partner with product, architecture, and platform teams to turn requirements into resilient designs and executable roadmaps.
• Raise engineering quality through strong CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, and operational readiness (SLIs/SLOs, on-call).
• Own production operations for critical services (monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement).
• Drive data modeling and API design for high-throughput, low-latency systems, including backward compatibility and schema evolution.

Skills

Java (Java 17+)

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Agile/Scrum

Observability

Tools

Spring Boot/Spring Cloud

Micrometer

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

JPMorganChase & Co. in New York, NY, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to shape and build secure, scalable back-end platforms. You will lead design, write production code, and guide delivery across teams on modern engineering practices.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture direction, and own production operations for mission-critical services, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance.