Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring, API, AWS

nd-run process, ensuring high-quality service delivery. As a technical leader, you will set engineering standards and provide guidance on architecture, code quality, and operational excellence. You will act as a subject matter expert in microservices, CI/CD, and performance engineering, while championing SDLC practices. Additionally, you will evaluate and introduce technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Your role will also involve embedding non-functional requirements into designs and fostering an inclusive team culture through mentorship and continuous improvement.

Job responsibilities

• Lead by example: contribute production‑quality code daily, write tests, perform code reviews, and pair program.

• Design and deliver secure, high‑quality microservices and web applications with Java/Spring Boot and React; own deep debugging, root‑cause analysis, and performance tuning for high-availability services.

• Own end‑to‑end build‑and‑run: design, implement, test, deploy, and operate services ("you build it, you run it").

• Provide technical leadership across teams; set engineering standards and coach on architecture, code quality, security, and operational excellence.

• Act as SME for microservices, CI/CD, observability, performance engineering, and data modeling.

• Champion SDLC practices: test automation, CI/CD, security‑by‑default, quality gates, and disciplined change management.

• Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and auditability.

• Embed non‑functional requirements (security, scalability, reliability, observability, cost) into designs; implement logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs, error budgets, alerting, and runbooks.

• Foster an inclusive team culture; mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement and craftsmanship.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering and 5+ years of applied experience.

• Advanced proficiency in Java and Spring Boot; strong fundamentals, design patterns, and secure coding.

• Full‑stack delivery with React (component/state management) and secure RESTful API design.

• Hands‑on AWS experience (EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM), including containerized workloads, networking, and secrets management.

• Microservices design, deployment, and operations.

• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), automated testing (unit/integration/contract), and enforcing quality gates.

• Relational and NoSQL databases: schema design, performance tuning, and secure data access.

• Monitoring and logging with DataDog, Dynatrace, and/or Splunk.

• Reliability and performance engineering: concurrency, thread management, caching, and resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries, backoff), with cost awareness.

• Proven track record shipping and operating production systems; comfortable troubleshooting in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud environments.

• Hands‑on use of AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery (e.g., GitHub Copilot): prompt design, code/test generation, refactoring, and documentation synthesis; ability to validate outputs for correctness, security, performance, and licensing compliance. Use subject to company-approved tools and policies.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Understanding of regulatory finance/external reporting (workflows, reconciliations, controls).

• Cloud certifications; proven cloud‑native delivery on AWS.

• Experience with large‑scale distributed systems, event‑driven architectures, and messaging/streaming patterns.

• Observability/SRE depth: telemetry pipelines, alerting strategies, incident response, post‑mortems, and continuous improvement.

ABOUT US

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.

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.