Senior Lead Software Engineer - Backend & Cloud

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Asset and Wealth Management technology team. You will drive the design, delivery, and governance of trusted, scalable software across regions.

You will lead agile squads, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architects, product specialists, and wealth managers to deliver end-to-end solutions. This role emphasizes high availability, robust backend services, and secure, compliant systems, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Flux & Spring Security frameworks
• Experience in Web UI development using ReactJS, TypeScript, Html 5, CSS 3
• Relational Database development skills including SQL and data modelling
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with designing and building applications natively on AWS, utilizing key services such as AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, S3, Aurora, and API Gateway
• Experience in high availability development and architectural practices
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, & decision‑making skills.
• Proven track record of technical leadership experience

Responsibilities

• Optimize back end applications for maximum speed, reliability and scalability
• Collaborate with technical architect and Designers for new products
• Follow and promote Agile practices including Scrum, Lean, BDD, TDD and Continuously Delivery
• Research new technologies, identify and learn best practice, adapt quickly and provide technical guidance across the organization.
• Work with multiple globally distributed teams to deliver end‑to‑end solution across regions
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from Wealth Managers and Product Specialist
• Presenting and demoing to users, stakeholders, and technology groups

Skills

Leadership

Agile

Problem solving

Technical leadership

Spring Frameworks

ReactJS

SQL

AWS

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Atlassian tools

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Asset and Wealth Management technology team. You will drive the design, delivery, and governance of trusted, scalable software across regions.

You will lead agile squads, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architects, product specialists, and wealth managers to deliver end-to-end solutions. This role emphasizes high availability, robust backend services, and secure, compliant systems, with opportunities to