Senior Lead Java & AWS Engineer — Scale Secure Backends

Fairygodboss; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

On-site wellness/health centers

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Consumer and Community Banking Connected Commerce team in New York. You will guide an agile, high-performing squad to design, build, and operate trusted, scalable technology products.

You will lead modern backend services using Java 21, Spring Boot, and cloud-native patterns, while shaping architecture with Kafka data pipelines and domain-driven design. Expect collaboration across tech stacks and business units.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items with Java 21 and Spring Boot for RESTful backend apps.
• Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines with Kafka, KSQL, Kafka Streams.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, etc.).
• Experience in API services, microservices with Domain Driven Design patterns.
• Experience with Terraform to provision AWS cloud services and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience with AWS: EKS, EC2, ECS, EventBridge, Lambda, Route53, S3; cloud-native mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code; reviews and debugs others' code.
• Drives decisions influencing product design, functionality, and operations.
• Acts as a function-wide SME in one or more focus areas.
• Contributes to engineering community; advocates SDLC frameworks and practices.
• Influences peers to adopt leading-edge technologies.
• Contributes to team culture of diversity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

5+ years experience

Java 21

Spring Boot

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

API design

Microservices

Domain Driven Design

Terraform

AWS

Cloud native

Independent problem-solving

Education

Computer Science/Engineering/Math degree

Tools

Terraform

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Consumer and Community Banking Connected Commerce team in New York. You will guide an agile, high-performing squad to design, build, and operate trusted, scalable technology products.

You will lead modern backend services using Java 21, Spring Boot, and cloud-native patterns, while shaping architecture with Kafka data pipelines and domain-driven design. Expect collaboration across tech stacks and business units.