Lead Software Engineer - Backend/Java/Cloud

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking organization, 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.

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
• 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

Requirements

• 5+ years of Java experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot
• Proficiency in REST API
• Proficient in Kafka
• Advanced understanding of multi-region deployments
• Demonstrated proficiency in Artificial Intelligence (e.g., Co-Pilot, LLM)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Cloud infrastructure experience
• Event-driven architecture experience

Preferred qualifications

• AWS experience
• Terraform experience
• Experience working with Blue-Green/Canary deployments
• Experience working with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience with Cassandra
• Experience with performance optimization and troubleshooting

About the team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions — all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage
• On-site health and wellness centers
• Retirement savings plan
• Backup childcare
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mental health support
• Financial coaching

Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

Pay

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.