Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Java/Back-End

Aumni; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care coverage

Tuition reimbursement

Backup childcare

Job summary

TwinThread is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Jersey City, NJ. You will mentor agile teams, develop high-quality APIs, and lead technical solutions for financial risk technologies. This role requires 5+ years of experience, expertise in Java/Spring frameworks, REST and SOAP development, and familiarity with AWS services, Kubernetes, and secure coding practices. A competitive benefits package is provided, including health care coverage and retirement savings plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years applied experience in software engineering.
• Expertise in design patterns and engineering best practices.
• Ability to develop secure production code.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and direction to teams.
• Develops and reviews high-quality production code.
• Leads architecture and development of APIs.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

Java/Spring frameworks

REST and SOAP API development

Kubernetes/Docker

AWS services

Secure coding practices

Test automation frameworks

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

AWS SDKs

Kafka

Oracle

Terraform

Redis

Job description

When you mentor and advise multiple agile technical teams and move financial risk technologies forward, it’s a big challenge with big impact. Join our team and be an integral part of our agile organization to deliver the best risk solutions for the firm. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer & Community Banking, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem‑solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
• Leads the architecture, design, and development of Java/Spring‑based framework APIs and shared components that enable rapid, secure service development across multiple LOBs
• Builds low‑latency, high‑throughput APIs and event‑driven systems optimized for extreme transaction volumes and near‑zero downtime
• Profiles, identifies, and optimizes existing code—including code developed by other team members

Required Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience with strong architecture, design patterns, engineering best practices, analysis, design, security fundamentals, secure coding practices, and code review skills for internet applications
• Experience with unit, integration, contract testing; experience with test automation frameworks and pipelines (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test)
• Expertise in underlying third‑party SDKs/components and protocols: AWS SDKs, HTTP connections, IBM MQ, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, GraalVM, TLS 1.3
• Proficiency in service development using REST and SOAP, strong API design fundamentals; JSON/XML messaging and SOA
• Knowledge of databases and data access frameworks like MyBatis, Hibernate, Oracle, Cassandra, CockroachDB
• Ability to build with cloud‑native microservices at scale: Kubernetes/Docker/EKS, service discovery, configuration management; AWS services including NLB, ALB, SQS, Redis, S3, Route 53, API/NAT Gateways, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC; IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation
• Familiarity with messaging and event streaming APIs (Kafka), caching (Redis), and both SQL and NoSQL datastores
• Exposure with observability tooling and practices (metrics, tracing, logs) and performance benchmarking at scale
• Proficiency in network/security: Kerberos, TLS 1.3, OAuth2, ADFS, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy, SpiderMesh, OWASP
• Proficiency in frameworks and libraries: Spring/Spring Boot, SLF4J, Jackson, Hystrix, JMS

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing shared libraries/frameworks adopted by multiple product teams
• Experience in large‑scale enterprise or financial services

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package including a base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Eligible roles may receive commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation. We also provide a range of benefits such as comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching, and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy, or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices, beliefs, mental health, and physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.