Lead Software Engineer - Full stack, Java, Spring boot, React, AWS

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer within the Consumer & Community Bank - ATM Channel team at JPMorganChase, you will be an integral part of an agile team enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will serve as a core technical contributor responsible for critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions to support the firm's business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Lead 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.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support). Establish consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promote reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of hands-on experience in software development.
• Deep expertise in the Java/JVM ecosystem and Spring Boot framework.
• Proven experience building robust APIs and microservices architectures.
• Strong proficiency in AWS cloud services and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka for architecting and building distributed messaging and event-driven architectures.
• Advanced skills in PostgreSQL and database optimization.
• Demonstrated ability in performance tuning and troubleshooting complex systems.
• Experience in real-time data processing.
• Proven experience with React JS and modern front-end development practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle, including CI/CD, automation, and application resiliency with experience working in Agile teams and partnering with product and engineering stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services experience.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation for eligible roles, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity.
• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits, and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

About The Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves 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.