Senior Software Engineer - Resilient Systems & DR

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Kentucky; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Technology Data Protection & Recovery team.

You will lead architectural decisions for Java services, implement secure, scalable solutions, and promote AI-assisted development practices across global teams. You will mentor engineers in code reviews, drive observability, and ensure encryption in transit and at rest while upholding resilience objectives.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
• Minimum 5+ years of applied experience in software development
• Expert level Java proficiency including collections, concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning
• Strong experience with Spring Boot, microservices, API design, and event-driven architecture
• Experience with resiliency and disaster recovery objectives and DR testing
• Secure SDLC expertise including threat modeling and encryption standards
• Familiarity with Kafka and other messaging platforms
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and responsible AI practices
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and version control

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across teams; act as subject matter expert in resiliency and recovery observability
• Own end-to-end architecture for critical Java services; define API contracts and event schemas
• Design, develop, review secure production code in Java; mentor engineers
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and delivery speed
• Drive observable, reliable service design with SLOs and latency budgets
• Collaborate in secure SDLC activities: threat modeling, encryption, secrets handling
• Champion observability, incident response, and postmortems for reliability
• Advance data protection and recovery capabilities and auditability
• Support CI/CD quality, automate tests, and enforce quality gates
• Mentor and evangelize firmwide frameworks and best practices

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

APIs

Kafka

AI-assisted tools

Security best practices

Observability

Cloud AWS

CI/CD

Mentoring

Education

Software engineering training

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

SAST/DAST

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Technology Data Protection & Recovery team.

You will lead architectural decisions for Java services, implement secure, scalable solutions, and promote AI-assisted development practices across global teams. You will mentor engineers in code reviews, drive observability, and ensure encryption in transit and at rest while upholding resilience objectives.