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# Lead Software Engineer - Backend/Java/Cloud

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,000.0 - $215,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, Cloud Computing, Performance Tuning, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Large Language Models, Grafana, Spring-boot, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Cassandra, Production Code, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Terraform
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/C3B9078CD62A448D81117B89141B75AA/job/

## About the Role

* 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 infostructure experience
 * Event-driven architecture experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 * 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 trouble shooting

## Description

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., * 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


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