Lead Software Engineer - Fullstack Java and React with Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jersey City, NJ, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$156,750.0 - $215,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Software Applications Automation of Tests Unit Testing Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Code Generation Software Quality Continuous Integration Database Queries
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Software Debugging Systems Development Life Cycle Software Tools Secure Coding Software Engineering Software Systems Systems Architecture Toolchain ReactJS Spring-boot Backend Event Driven Architecture Production Code Maintaining Code Apache Kafka Video Streaming Programming Languages

Job description

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - GB Sales & Marketing team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives., * Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems.

  • Lead a module and help your subordinates to design and develop scalable services. Leads evaluation sessions with internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
  • Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
  • Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
  • Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
  • Applies 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.
  • Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
  • Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
  • Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.

Requirements

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, overall knowledge of SDLC, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Full-stack development with Java/Spring Boot and React - building and maintaining secure backend services and modern web UIs in an enterprise environment.
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages - Java / Spring Boot.
  • Experience with React.
  • Cloud-native engineering on AWS - designing, deploying, and operating scalable services (including reliability, security, and cost-aware patterns).
  • Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
  • Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices.
  • Operational excellence (CI/CD, resiliency, security, automation) - strong SDLC practices, automating recurring remediation, and improving stability/observability of production systems.
  • System design & architecture leadership - producing architecture/design artifacts, evaluating technical designs, and leading modules/technical decision-making across team s.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Strong architecture/design review skills; able to align solutions to existing platforms and standards.
  • Experience building cloud-native solutions on Amazon Web Services.
  • Module/workstream leadership and mentoring experience within agile teams.
  • Experience with data integration patterns and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka or similar messaging/streaming technologies).
  • Responsible use of enterprise-authorized AI development tools, with strong validation discipline (tests/peer review).
  • Knowledge on observability practices (logs/metrics/traces, dashboards, alerting).
  • Financial services knowledge, with an understanding of how technology enables Commercial & Investment Bank products and client experiences.

Benefits & conditions

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.

About the company

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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