
Java/Spring/Kafka/ AWS/ Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- City
- Columbus
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer for JPMorgan Chase's Consumer & Community Banking Deposits 2.0 team responsible for designing and building scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices and ensuring test quality and CI/CD governance. The role leads quality enablement across scrum teams, driving automation, contract testing, coverage metrics, and integration of static analysis into pipelines. Requires hands-on development with Kafka and AWS, plus leadership in shaping test frameworks, quality gates, and cross-team best practices.
Location: Columbus, OH, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Deposits 2.0 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
- Owns and leads the governance of quality coverage across all scrum teams, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing
- Defines and monitors quality metrics such as coverage percentage, defect leakage, and automation effectiveness
- Provides technical guidance and conducts code/test reviews to ensure depth and completeness of test coverage
- Create scalable microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and CI/CD toolsets (including GIT, Jenkins, JUnit, and Mockito) to develop high-quality software
- Acts as the bridge between development and quality enablement, driving consistency and best practices across teams
- Leads, maintains and evolves test frameworks, tools, and CI/CD quality gates to support robust automation
- Analyzes codebases and pipelines to identify gaps in test coverage and improve testability and observability
- Integrates static analysis, code coverage, and test reporting tools into the delivery pipeline
- Leads and collaborates across multiple Tech Product teams in Consumer & Community Banking to maintain quality gates in CI/CD along with automation ROI reviews to guide teams toward effective and maintainable coverage
- 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
- Strong coding proficiency in Java and Spring Boot and familiar with other modern languages
- Deep expertise in test automation frameworks, for backend APIs and stream services, integrating coverage and quality metrics
- Solid understanding of contract testing, mocking frameworks, service virtualization, and automation best practices
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and toolsets (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab), SDLC, and continuous delivery methods
- Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies, application resiliency, security, shift-left quality enablement
- Experience creating scalable microservices using Java, and Spring Boot,
- Strong experience in CI/CD toolsets (including GIT, Jenkins, JUnit, and Mockito) to develop high-quality software
- AWS Cloud experience
- Hands-on leadership experience (3-5 years) with varying levels of Software Engineers in an agile Scrum environment
- BDD experience/expertise (Behavior Driven Development)
- Strong experience in AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Lambda, Aurora Postgres, Route53, ELB, API Gateway) and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience with AI/ML (Python) or related tools as applied to software quality, such as AI-driven test generation, defect prediction, or analytics
- Experience working in a very large Financial or Banking services technology environment
- SDD experience/expertise (Spec Driven Development)




