Senior Lead Java Engineer: Microservices, AWS & SDLC

Testing Site - JPMC; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in the Corporate sector's Global Finance Technology team is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring, API, AWS to help build secure, scalable technology products. You will contribute production code, write tests, review code, and mentor engineers.

You will design microservices with Java/Spring Boot and React, own end-to-end build and run, and lead architecture discussions while championing SDLC practices and cost-efficient improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, and secure RESTful design.
• Experience with AWS and microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example: contribute production‑quality code daily, write tests, perform code reviews, and pair program.
• Design and deliver secure, high‑quality microservices and web applications with Java/Spring Boot and React; own deep debugging, root‑cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Own end‑to-end build‑and‑run: design, implement, test, deploy, and operate services.
• Provide technical leadership across teams; set engineering standards and coach on architecture, code quality, security, and operational excellence.
• Act as SME for microservices, CI/CD, observability, performance engineering, and data modeling.
• Champion SDLC practices: test automation, CI/CD, security‑by‑default, quality gates, and disciplined change management.
• Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and auditability.
• Embed non‑functional requirements (security, scalability, reliability, observability, cost) into designs; implement logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs, error budgets, alerting, and runbooks.
• Foster an inclusive team culture; mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement and craftsmanship.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

React

AWS

Microservices

CI/CD

Testing

Security

Kubernetes

Performance tuning

Tools

DataDog

Dynatrace

Splunk

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Docker

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in the Corporate sector's Global Finance Technology team is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring, API, AWS to help build secure, scalable technology products. You will contribute production code, write tests, review code, and mentor engineers.

You will design microservices with Java/Spring Boot and React, own end-to-end build and run, and lead architecture discussions while championing SDLC practices and cost-efficient improvements.