Senior Lead Software Engineer: Cloud-Native & Kafka Expert

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Consumer and Community Banking Connected Commerce team. You will guide an agile squad, design scalable backend services, and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products with a focus on security and reliability.

The role demands hands-on expertise in Java 21, Spring Boot, Kafka streams, and cloud platforms (AWS). You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and promote best practices across

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 RESTful backends using Spring Boot.
• Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines with Kafka, KSQL, and Kafka Streams.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases such as Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, etc.
• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining API services with Microservices and Domain-Driven Design.
• Experience with Terraform to provision AWS cloud services and knowledge of AWS EKS, EC2, ECS, EventBridge, Lambda, Route53, and S3.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes in cloud/AI/mobile domains.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little supervision.
• Practical cloud-native experience in a banking/digital wallet context is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews code written by others.
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Contributes to engineering community through firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to adopt leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java 21

RESTful backend

Spring Boot

SQL

NoSQL databases

Kafka

Cloud computing

AWS

Domain Driven Design

Microservices

Leadership / mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS services (EKS, EC2, ECS, EventBridge, Lambda, Route53, S3)

Kafka Streams / KSQL

Spring Boot ecosystem

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Consumer and Community Banking Connected Commerce team. You will guide an agile squad, design scalable backend services, and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products with a focus on security and reliability.

The role demands hands-on expertise in Java 21, Spring Boot, Kafka streams, and cloud platforms (AWS). You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and promote best practices across