Lead Software Engineer - Backend/Java/Cloud

Job Responsibilities

You will join a collaborative team where your ideas matter, your engineering craftsmanship is valued, and you'll help deliver technology that supports customers and communities at scale. You will be a core technical contributor, driving critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas and business functions in support of the firm's objectives. You will collaborate closely with product partners and engineering peers to design resilient systems, improve developer experience, and raise the bar on quality and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 8+ years of Java experience, including core APIs, web services, concurrency, and design patterns
• 8+ years of Spring Boot experience building high-performance, maintainable services
• 5+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including data modeling and performance tuning
• 5+ years of Apache Kafka experience designing and implementing event-driven solutions
• 2+ years of cloud experience, including deploying and operating services using Amazon Web Services
• Proven ability to design, develop, deploy, and support medium to large applications in an agile (Scrum) environment
• Experience implementing CI/CD using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, or AWS CodePipeline
• Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit 5 and Cucumber

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience with modern DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform
• Experience with performance testing, debugging, and profiling using tools such as JMeter or BlazeMeter
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or Grafana
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
• Demonstrated mentoring and technical coaching experience that supports team growth and continuous improvement

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.