Senior Java Backend Engineer — Cloud & Microservices

Next Frontier Capital; Kentucky; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total rewards package

Health care coverage

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Commerce & Community Banking seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the Fraud Assessment Tech team. You will act as a core technical contributor, delivering scalable Java services and RESTful APIs, and driving data pipelines with Kafka in a secure, scalable environment.

You will collaborate with product partners and engineering peers to design resilient systems, improve developer experience, and raise the bar on quality and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• 8+ years of Java experience including core APIs, web services, concurrency, and design patterns.
• 8+ years of Spring Boot experience building high-performance services.
• 5+ years of SQL and NoSQL databases experience with data modeling and tuning.
• 5+ years of Apache Kafka experience in event-driven design.
• 2+ years of cloud experience with AWS.
• Proven ability to design, develop, deploy, and support medium to large apps in an Agile (Scrum) environment.
• Proficiency in building secure, scalable RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience implementing CI/CD using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Hands-on with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit 5 and Cucumber.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable, resilient Java-based services and microservices.
• Build and maintain REST APIs and distributed event-driven architectures.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines using Apache Kafka.
• Model, query, and tune relational and NoSQL data stores for performance.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, frequent releases.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code to create repeatable environments and deployments.
• Monitor production systems and drive availability, latency, and reliability improvements.
• Conduct code reviews and uphold secure coding and testing standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical designs and production-ready solutions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

SQL & NoSQL

Apache Kafka

Cloud (AWS)

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

JUnit & Cucumber

Agile / Scrum

Security & Design Patterns

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Monitoring tools (Prometheus/Splunk)

Job description

JPMorganChase in Commerce & Community Banking seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the Fraud Assessment Tech team. You will act as a core technical contributor, delivering scalable Java services and RESTful APIs, and driving data pipelines with Kafka in a secure, scalable environment.

You will collaborate with product partners and engineering peers to design resilient systems, improve developer experience, and raise the bar on quality and operational excellence.