Senior Lead Java Engineer - AWS, Microservices & AI

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Employee Experience to join an agile team that delivers secure, scalable technology products.

You will lead end-to-end design of Java services, architect cloud-native solutions on AWS, and mentor engineers across the SDLC to raise quality and velocity. You will collaborate with product and data partners to optimize workflows, build data pipelines with Databricks/Spark, and promote responsible AI-driven software development

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience.
• Advanced Java experience, including building Spring Boot-based services in a microservices architecture.
• Experience with Java (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud)
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, automated testing, and operational stability for production systems
• Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications on AWS (compute, storage, database, container, and serverless)
• Experience with CI/CD and modern build/version control practices (Git, Maven/Gradle)

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of scalable Java services and APIs, optimizing for performance, resiliency, and maintainability in production environments
• Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, applying well-structured patterns for reliability, observability, and cost-aware scalability
• Mentor engineers through thoughtful code reviews, design guidance, and pragmatic engineering standards that raise quality and accelerate delivery
• Collaborate with product, design, and data partners to define technical strategies that improve user experience and automate key workflows
• Build and optimize data pipelines using Databricks and Apache Spark to enable analytics and machine learning workflows at scale
• Drive engineering excellence across continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, and secure software development practices
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale

Skills

Advanced Java

Spring Boot

Cloud (AWS)

CI/CD

Automated testing

SQL

Kafka

Mentoring

Leadership

AI-assisted tooling

Education

Software engineering training

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Git

Maven/Gradle

Terraform

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Employee Experience to join an agile team that delivers secure, scalable technology products.

You will lead end-to-end design of Java services, architect cloud-native solutions on AWS, and mentor engineers across the SDLC to raise quality and velocity. You will collaborate with product and data partners to optimize workflows, build data pipelines with Databricks/Spark, and promote responsible AI-driven software development