Senior Lead Engineer: Scalable Java/Spring APIs

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in New Jersey seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to mentor agile teams and drive risk technology forward. You will help build secure, scalable Java/Spring APIs and microservices across multiple lines of business.

You will own design decisions, review code, and push for high-quality production code, while collaborating with contractors and vendors to deliver trusted technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience with architecture, design patterns, engineering best practices, analysis, design, security fundamentals, secure coding practices, and code review skills for internet applications.
• Experience with unit, integration, contract testing; experience with test automation frameworks and pipelines (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test).
• Expertise in underlying third‑party SDKs/components and protocols: AWS SDKs, HTTP connections, IBM MQ, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, GraalVM, TLS 1.3.
• Proficiency in service development using REST and SOAP, strong API design fundamentals; JSON/XML messaging and SOA.
• Knowledge of Databases and Data access frameworks like MyBatis, Hibernate, Oracle, Cassandra, CockroachDB.
• Ability to build with cloud‑native microservices at scale: with Kubernetes/Docker/EKS, service discovery, configuration management; AWS services including NLB, ALB, SQS, Redis, S3, Route 53, API/NAT Gateways, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC; IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with Messaging and event streaming API's (Kafka), caching (Redis), and familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL datastores.
• Exposure with observability tooling and practices (metrics, tracing, logs) and performance benchmarking at scale.
• Proficiency in Network/Security: Kerberos, TLS 1.3, OAuth2, ADFS, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy, SpiderMesh, OWASP.
• Proficiency in Frameworks and libraries: Spring/Spring Boot, SLF4J, Jackson, Hystrix, JMS.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Lead the architecture, design, and development of Java/Spring‑based framework APIs and shared components that enable rapid, secure service development across multiple LOBs.
• Build low‑latency, high‑throughput APIs and event‑driven systems optimized for extreme transaction volumes and near‑zero downtime.
• Profiling, identifying, and optimizing existing code—including code developed by other team members.

Skills

Software architecture

Secure coding

Unit testing

Test automation

REST/SOAP APIs

Cloud microservices

Kafka messaging

Kubernetes/Docker

Spring Framework

Observability

TLS/OAuth2

Tools

AWS SDKs

Kafka

Cassandra

Oracle

GraalVM

TLS 1.3

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in New Jersey seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to mentor agile teams and drive risk technology forward. You will help build secure, scalable Java/Spring APIs and microservices across multiple lines of business.

You will own design decisions, review code, and push for high-quality production code, while collaborating with contractors and vendors to deliver trusted technology solutions.