Senior Cloud-Native Java Engineer — Low-Latency Platform

Aumni; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and optimize high-performance, low-latency distributed systems that underpin our AI-driven data platform. You will influence architecture, standards, and reliability while collaborating with engineering, data science, and platform teams across cloud-native services.

You will mentor engineers, drive observability and CI/CD practices, and own production outcomes end-to-end in a high-stakes financial environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with strong Java/Spring Boot
• Low-latency distributed systems design experience
• Hands-on AWS services experience (MSK, SQS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Kinesis, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift)
• Experience implementing observability (Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk) in production
• Strong API design, testing, and production debugging fundamentals
• Proficiency in modern languages with emphasis on Java and OO design
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Ability to communicate tradeoffs to tech and non-tech stakeholders
• Experience leading AI-assisted software development tools and validating AI outputs
• Knowledge of responsible AI practices and secure data handling

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement low-latency, high-throughput Java Spring Boot services
• Design cloud-native architectures with 99.9%–99.999% HA using AWS services
• Develop infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/CloudFormation
• Improve observability with Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk across microservices
• Translate evolving requirements into stable service designs for stakeholders
• Lead design reviews and drive engineering best practices
• Own production outcomes end-to-end, resolving performance and reliability gaps
• Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists on platform needs
• Mentor engineers to foster ownership and excellence
• Advance AI-assisted engineering practices with measurable validation

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Low-latency

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Dynatrace

Splunk

Observability

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Dynatrace

Splunk

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and optimize high-performance, low-latency distributed systems that underpin our AI-driven data platform. You will influence architecture, standards, and reliability while collaborating with engineering, data science, and platform teams across cloud-native services.

You will mentor engineers, drive observability and CI/CD practices, and own production outcomes end-to-end in a high-stakes financial environment.