
Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Java/React
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- City
- Jersey City
- Country
- United States
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Senior full-stack engineer role on the Asset & Wealth Management Marketing Technology team at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining Java/Spring Boot backend services and React front-ends. Leads design of REST/GraphQL APIs, drives observability, reliability, security, automated testing, and CI/CD practices. Mentors engineers, leads code reviews, evaluates vendor solutions, and promotes engineering standards across the organization. Requires hands-on cloud-native experience and deep knowledge of financial services IT systems.
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management Marketing Technology 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
- Architect, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java (preferably Java 17+) and Spring Boot.
- 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
- Design RESTful and/or GraphQL interfaces; ensure robust authentication, authorization, and input validation.
- Own system performance, reliability, observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and security best practices.
- Write comprehensive automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) and drive CI/CD excellence.
- Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and promote engineering standards and clean architecture.
- 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
- 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
- 10+ Years of Experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and at least one NoSQL store (e.g., MongoDB).
- Knowledge of messaging/streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous processing.
- Solid testing practices: JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test; front-end testing with Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Practical cloud native experience
- Develop high-quality, reusable React components (React 18+, TypeScript) and front-end features
- Hands-on with AWS services: ECS/EKS or Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch.
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) a plus.
- Observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus.




