
Java React AWS Sr Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 14 days ago
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- City
- Columbus
- Country
- United States
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Senior lead full‑stack engineer role on the Legal & Regulatory Control product team, responsible for designing, building and operating secure, scalable Java-based microservices and React/JSUIs on AWS. Acts as a hands-on technical lead delivering production code, driving architecture decisions, and mentoring junior engineers. Works with monitoring/observability tools, vendor evaluations, and brings best practices for SDLC, CI/CD and cloud operations. Focus areas include Java/Spring Boot, event-driven patterns (Kafka), and AWS services (EC2, S3, MSK, Lambda, ECS/EKS).
Location: Columbus, OH, United States
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. The Legal & Regulatory Control Operations (L&RCO) Product Group enables regulatory compliance via consistent and transparent technology solutions for our customers and employees as they experience or service challenging life, legal or regulatory events or needs.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Legal & Regulatory Control Team, 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
- 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
- Codes 35% and more in Java (Spring boot, Microservices, REST API Development, Design Patterns, JPA, Junit, LOG4J), Java script, and UI Frameworks (React or Angular)
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- 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
- Creates detailed design documentation that demonstrates knowledge of building/supporting enterprise-level systems
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Lead others as hands on Full stack developer including designing and building AWS Cloud solutions (EC2, S3, MSK, Lambda, ELB, ECS, EKS etc.)
- Utilize monitoring tools such as Cloud Watch, Dynatrace, and Splunk
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+years applied experience
- 10 plus years of experience in full stack development with Java, Groovy, and/or Python
- 7 plus years of hands on User Interface (UI) experience in Java script, UI Frameworks (React or Angular)
- 10 plus years of hands on experience working on Java Frameworks (Spring boot, Microservices, REST API Development, Design Patterns, JPA, Junit, LOG4J)
- Strong understanding of (Kafka, OAuth / Open ID / Windows ADFS)
- Strong hands on experience designing and building solutions on AWS including services (EC2, S3, MSK, Lambda, ELB, ECS, EKS etc.)
- Hands on experience on developmental toolsets (IntelliJ or Eclipse, SOAP UI or Postman)
- Experience with source code management (GIT branches, GIT commands, Maven build concepts, CI/CD)
- Experience with cloud-based technologies (AWS, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Google, etc.)
- Strong drive and ability to learn and apply new/emerging technologies
- Experience mentoring junior team members for career growth
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with Splunk, Dynatrace, Atlassian Tools (JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence)
- Knowledge of Experimentation, Chaos Engineering, Fault Injection, and (FMEA)
- Strong Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Cloud Watch, Dynatrace, Splunk and Open Telemetry)
- Hands-on experience of Microservices, Data usage patterns, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
- Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture, capture and share best-practice knowledge across teams
- Demonstrated ability to back decisions with research and articulate several options with the pros and cons




