Senior Lead Engineer - Cloud-Native AWS ML Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ, seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to own production outcomes and shape scalable, low-latency systems for AI and data platforms.

You will design Java Spring Boot services, pair with data scientists, and drive observability, SRE practices, and IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation across AWS.

This role emphasizes architecture influence, strong coding standards, and leadership across teams while delivering high-availability cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Strong Java development skills using object-oriented principles and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and tuning low-latency processing in production distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including MSK, SQS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Kinesis, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift.
• Experience implementing alerting, monitoring, and reporting with Datadog, Dynatrace, or Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement low-latency, high-throughput Java Spring Boot–based distributed services with well-defined APIs.
• Design and build cloud-native architectures with 99.9–99.999% availability using AWS services (MSK, SQS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Kinesis, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift).
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and/or CloudFormation for scalable deployments.
• Implement observability and incident management using Datadog, Dynatrace, and Splunk across microservices.
• Translate evolving requirements into stable service designs and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders.
• Lead design reviews, establish best practices, and promote platform reliability and maintainability.
• Own production outcomes end-to-end, resolving bottlenecks and reliability gaps through automation.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to meet platform requirements with robust engineering solutions.
• Mentor engineers to foster ownership and continuous learning within the team.
• Promote and govern AI-assisted engineering practices with measurable validation and reuse patterns.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Low-latency design

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud-native

Observability

Mentoring

AI-assisted tooling

Security in cloud

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Dynatrace

Splunk

MSK/Kafka

SQS

S3

RDS

DynamoDB

Redshift

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ, seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to own production outcomes and shape scalable, low-latency systems for AI and data platforms.

You will design Java Spring Boot services, pair with data scientists, and drive observability, SRE practices, and IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation across AWS.

This role emphasizes architecture influence, strong coding standards, and leadership across teams while delivering high-availability cloud-native solutions.