
Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 15 hours ago
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- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer role within Consumer and Community Banking at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for leading an agile team to design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable Java-based applications on AWS. The role involves hands-on development with Java/Spring Boot, event-driven architectures (Kafka/AWS MSK), cloud-native services (EKS, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3), and ensuring operational stability and CI/CD. You will provide technical direction, mentoring, vendor evaluation, and drive architectural and tooling improvements across the team. Prior experience in financial services and strong understanding of OOP/SOA and enterprise design patterns is required.
Location: New York, NY, United States
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to improving, developing, and providing reliable, cutting-edge technology solutions that are secure, stable, and scalable.
Job responsibilities:
- Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks
- 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
- 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
- Executes the delivery of software development as a lead on an agile team
- Triage technical issues and work toward solving problems
- 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 of applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) (Backend: JAVA, Spring Boot Framework, AWS Cloud, UI technology stack - React JS or Angular, CSS/HTML, etc.)
- Proficient designing, developing and maintaining event driven systems using Apache Kafka or AWS MSK.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Understand building internet scale platforms from ground up, with strong background knowledge of OOP & SOA principles, enterprise design patterns and industry best practices (using modern technology e.g., JAVA, Cassandra, Kafka, micro services, APIs, etc.)
- Practical cloud native experience (e.g., proficiency with AWS services - EKS, ECS, Dynamo Db, Cassandra, Lambda, S3, etc.)
- Demonstrate proficiency in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Exposure to AI based Code Assist tools and AI/ML solutions
- Familiarity with Graph databases. Excellent opportunity to work on mission critical team with client facing applications!




