Lead Software Engineer - Backend

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career - and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

Join our group where you will have the opportunity deliver trusted market-leading technology products supporting Alternate Lending.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and community banking Alternate Lending , you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

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

• Develop, test, and debug automated tasks (Apps, Systems, Infrastructure)

• Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases.

• Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems.

• Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions.

• Build automations to reduce manual interventions for production operations.

• Build real-time monitoring and observability tools and processes.

• Build and drive adoption for greater self-healing and resiliency patterns.

• Lead and participate in performance tests; identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Strong development skills in Java and AWS (EKS, ECS,S3, Aurora).

• Experience with the Spring framework (Core, REST API, web services, messaging), with experience in Spring Boot and microservice architecture.

• Experience with data storage solutions, including SQL, Postgres, NoSQL databases (Cassandra ), data lakes, and S3.

• Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools such as Kibana, Splunk, Elastic Search, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Datadog.

• Experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment processes using tools like Jenkins and Spinnaker.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues in production systems.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Associate Developer, DevOps, Certified Kubernetes Developer).

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. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.