
Lead Software Engineer - Java, Springboot, Kafka
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 15 hours ago
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- City
- Atlanta
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer role on the Consumer and Community Banking Technology team at JPMorgan Chase, focused on delivering secure, stable, and scalable technology products. You will serve as a core technical contributor in an agile team, designing and building Java/Spring-based microservices and REST APIs while considering upstream/downstream impacts. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing production-quality code, driving operational stability through automation and CI/CD, and evaluating technologies such as cloud-native platforms, containers, and streaming systems. The role prefers experience with Kafka, RDBMS, source control, and observability tools.
Location: Atlanta, GA, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking Technology team, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve 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 with limited guidance
- Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- 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
- Formal training or certification on Java software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience with Spring and REST services
- Experience with J2EE and microservices design and development
- 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
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- 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
- Experience in RDBMS (Oracle)
- Experience with Containers and Kafka or any streaming technology
- Experience with various source control tools like GIT
- Understanding of Jenkins CI/CD, Maven/Gradle
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace tools




