Lead Software Engineer - API Gateway, AWS
JPMorgan Chase · Posted Oct 22
Global banking, investment, credit card, mortgage, and asset management services
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About the role
The Consumer and Community Banking team at JPMorganChase builds and delivers technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. The role is a core technical contributor responsible for critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas and business functions. This Lead Software Engineer will work on microservices framework components, API gateway and API management capabilities, and scalable cloud/edge patterns across AWS and Akamai.
What you will do
- Design, build, and enhance microservices framework components and platform services used across the Consumer Bank.
- Engineer and operate API gateway and API management capabilities (e.g., Kong) to support external APIs.
- Implement scalable, secure patterns for APIs, microservices, and event-driven applications across cloud and edge platforms (e.g., AWS, Akamai).
- Partner with application teams and platform stakeholders to define standards, reusable patterns, and reference implementations.
- Contribute to architecture, analysis, design, development, code reviews, and technical documentation.
- Drive engineering excellence through automation, testing, reliability practices, and continuous improvement in CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in Agile delivery and support production readiness through operational ownership and incident follow-up.
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure architecture.
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Java, Python, and/or Golang (7+ years).
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform for AWS provisioning (3+ years).
- Experience building and operating API capabilities, including APIs, API gateways, and API management (3+ years).
- Experience deploying and operating workloads on AWS, using EKS (3+ years).
- Strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, analysis, design, coding, and code review. Proficiency with modern developer toolchains and engineering best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate in large, cross-functional teams and contribute to an inclusive, innovative engineering culture. Experience with Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices.
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
Preferred qualifications
- Deep expertise with AWS services supporting platform engineering, networking, security, and observability.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and managed messaging/streaming patterns.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest, largest, and most diversified financial services institutions in the world. Operating globally through the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, the firm provides a comprehensive range of financial solutions including investment banking, consumer and commercial banking, transaction processing, and asset management. Serving millions of consumers and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients, the company combines deep market expertise with extensive technological investments.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 320000+ employees
- Founded
- 1799
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Global Chief Information Officer
CEO, Asset & Wealth Management
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