Senior Java/Python Lead Engineer - Resilient Microservices

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Columbus, OH is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to drive critical Java services, security, and observability within Enterprise Technology Data Protection & Recovery. You will lead agile teams and shape architecture for resilient, scalable systems across platforms.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, threat modeling, and robust incident response, with mentorship and cross-team collaboration as core duties.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 8+ years of Java experience with concurrency and performance tuning.
• Strong Spring Boot and microservices with API-driven design.
• Expertise in Python-based microservices.
• Deep knowledge of resiliency engineering and DR objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across teams; act as domain SME in resiliency and recovery observability.
• Own end to end architecture for critical Java services: boundaries, API contracts, event schemas.
• Design, develop, review secure production Java code; mentor engineers via code reviews.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality, speed, and reliability.
• Utilize SDLC tools including AI-assisted development to improve automation.
• Drive resilient service design: manage availability SLAs, latency budgets, and error budgets.
• Partner to lead secure SDLC: threat modeling, SAST/DAST, encryption, authZ patterns.
• Champion observability and SRE: metrics, alerts, runbooks, incident response, postmortems.
• Advance data protection and recovery: chain of custody and auditability.
• Improve systems by analyzing objectives and planning performance improvements.
• Support CI/CD quality: automated tests, coverage targets, pipeline gates, progressive delivery.
• Contribute to engineering community and foster inclusion.
• Support critical environments and on-call obligations for owned services.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Python

AI-assisted development

Security in SDLC

Cloud AWS

Observability/SRE

Threat modeling

CI/CD

Tools

Kafka

Git

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Columbus, OH is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to drive critical Java services, security, and observability within Enterprise Technology Data Protection & Recovery. You will lead agile teams and shape architecture for resilient, scalable systems across platforms.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, threat modeling, and robust incident response, with mentorship and cross-team collaboration as core duties.