Senior Java Lead: AI-Driven, Spring Boot & Kafka

Aumni; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Chicago is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the Equipment & Asset Finance Technology team. You will deliver scalable, secure technology solutions and act as a core technical contributor across multiple domains for enterprise-scale initiatives.

You will lead a global feature team, drive AI-assisted development practices, and collaborate with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams to improve stability, observability, and deployment reliability across

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 8+ years of applied experience, including hands-on delivery of system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced Java development experience, including Java 21+, object-oriented analysis and design, concurrency, collections, streams, records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads
• Advanced experience with Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Framework 6.x, including Spring Security, Spring Data, microservices, domain-driven design, RESTful APIs, OpenAPI 3.x, and event-driven development with Kafka
• Hands-on full-stack and data experience using React 18+, TypeScript, relational databases such as Oracle SQL / PostgreSQL, and persistence frameworks including Hibernate / JPA
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to validate AI outputs for correctness, performance, security, and responsible handling of sensitive data, combined with advanced knowledge of Agile delivery, continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, testing, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, reviews and debugs code written by others, and ensures solutions meet architectural standards and automated quality requirements
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation
• Leads a global feature team by setting technical direction, supporting pair programming, mentoring engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, and partnering with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams
• Identifies opportunities to improve application stability, observability, code quality, and deployment reliability while supporting applications across development, staging, and production environments

Skills

Java development

Spring Boot

React/TypeScript

SQL/DBs

AI-assisted dev tooling

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

OpenAPI 3.x

Redis

GraphQL

Apache Spark

Flink

Job description

JPMorganChase in Chicago is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the Equipment & Asset Finance Technology team. You will deliver scalable, secure technology solutions and act as a core technical contributor across multiple domains for enterprise-scale initiatives.

You will lead a global feature team, drive AI-assisted development practices, and collaborate with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams to improve stability, observability, and deployment reliability across