Java Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Trust and Security, 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.

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
• 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

• 7+ years of professional software development experience 
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Strong proficiency in Java (e.g., Java 11/17+) and Spring Boot (or similar frameworks).
• 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

• ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway/ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB
• SQS/SNS/Kinesis, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, IAM, KMS
• CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and automated quality gates.
• Observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, structured logging.
• Experience with event-driven design, messaging, and streaming architectures.