
Java Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 11 days ago
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- Compensation
- Not specified USD
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer role focusing on Java and Spring Boot within JPMorgan Chase’s Consumer and Community Bank - Payments Technology. You will design, develop, secure, and operate scalable payment technology solutions in an agile environment, collaborating across teams and external partners. The role emphasizes troubleshooting, code reviews, performance tuning, and contributing to system architecture decisions. Ideal for someone with 5+ years of hands-on software development experience who can drive automation, resilience, and secure software practices.
Location: NY, United States
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As a Java Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Bank- Payments Technology, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language
- Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
- Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve relative complex technical problems
- Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Drives evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Proficient at coding in Java and Spring Boot, with good understanding of Spring Cloud concepts
- Demonstrated experience with database technologies including Postgress and SQL
- Hands-on experience to utilize monitoring and tracing tools (e.g. Splunk, Dynatrace, Postman, etc.)
- Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence/machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle
- Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security, including authentication
- Experience participating in code reviews, troubleshooting, performance tuning and contributing to system architecture and technical decision-making
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proven expertise in architecting and delivering highly scalable, resilient, and stable systems on public cloud platforms such as AWS
- Extensive experience with event-driven messaging and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka), both NoSQL and relational databases, and cloud-native API/microservice development
- Strong hands-on proficiency with modern software development tools and technologies, including Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, Sonar, Artifactory, and AI-powered code assistants




