Senior Java & Spring Boot Architect — AI-Driven Leader

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Wellness resources

Retirement savings

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Eligible incentive pay

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Chicago is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and troubleshoot software solutions, applying creative approaches to complex technical problems and delivering secure, high-quality production code.

You will lead a global feature team, set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams while promoting enterprise-approved AI-assisted engineering practices and ensuring compliance with security and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with system design, application development, testing, and production stability
• Advanced Java experience (Java 21+), OO design, concurrency, streams, and patterns
• Proficient with Spring Boot 3.x/Framework 6.x, Spring Security and microservices
• Full-stack/data experience with React 18+, TypeScript, SQL (Oracle/PostgreSQL), and Hibernate/JPA
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools with emphasis on correctness, security and data handling
• Cloud-native development on AWS/Azure/GCP and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of CI/CD, observability, and security practices
• Prefer: React hooks, Next.js, Terraform or Pulumi, and OpenAPI/Kafka-based event-driven design

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and troubleshoot software solutions across the stack
• Build secure, high-quality production code and review others' work
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices and establish validation standards
• Leverage lifecycle tools and automation to increase delivery value
• Lead a global feature team: set direction, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product Owners
• Improve stability, observability, quality and deployment reliability across environments

Skills

Java expert

OO design

Concurrency

Streams

Pattern matching

Virtual threads

Education

Formal software engineering training or certification

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Framework

React

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

OpenAPI

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

JPA

JUnit

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Chicago is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and troubleshoot software solutions, applying creative approaches to complex technical problems and delivering secure, high-quality production code.

You will lead a global feature team, set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams while promoting enterprise-approved AI-assisted engineering practices and ensuring compliance with security and