Senior Lead Engineer: Java/React Microservices on AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture, delivery and modernization of market-leading technology products within the Commercial & Investment Bank Lending technology. You will lead a global scrum team, own technical direction, and partner with Product to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role requires strong backend and frontend expertise, deep knowledge of microservices, REST and GraphQL, React, and cloud-native patterns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operations.
• Advanced Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and REST-based services proficiency.
• Experience with modern distributed architectures and event-driven patterns.
• Strong frontend skills with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global scrum team to deliver on commitments, taking full ownership of business results.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and drive meaningful impact.
• Integrate AI into solutions and team workflows to accelerate delivery and foster innovation.
• Set a long-term vision for the platform, architect for scale, resilience, and flexibility.
• Model best practices in design, documentation, and patterns across teams.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' work.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices with measurable validation standards.
• Actively contribute to firmwide SDLC frameworks and tooling.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

AI-assisted tools

Tools

GraphQL

AWS

Job description

JPMorganChase in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture, delivery and modernization of market-leading technology products within the Commercial & Investment Bank Lending technology. You will lead a global scrum team, own technical direction, and partner with Product to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role requires strong backend and frontend expertise, deep knowledge of microservices, REST and GraphQL, React, and cloud-native patterns.