Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS, golang
JPMorgan Chase · Posted Oct 29
Global banking, investment, credit card, mortgage, and asset management services
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About the role
The Commercial & Investment Bank at JPMorgan Chase runs agile teams that build, enhance, and deliver market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. The role is a core technical contributor position spanning Java and Go microservices, SQL/NoSQL data stores, and Kubernetes workloads on AWS. The Lead Software Engineer designs and develops secure production code, drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, and leads architecture evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams.
What you will do
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- 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.
- 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8+ years’ applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient hands-on experience in Java, Go-Lang programming languages using micro-services architecture
- Strong database fundamentals across both SQL and NoSQL, including data modeling and design patterns, indexing strategies, query optimization, and transaction management
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating workloads in private Kubernetes environments and within the AWS Kubernetes ecosystem (e.g., EKS), including Deployments, Services, Ingress, configuration and secrets management, and autoscaling
- 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
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Preferred qualifications
- Messaging/streaming systems (Kafka/SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ) and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with service mesh / advanced traffic management (e.g., Istio/Linkerd) and API gateways
- Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform/CloudFormation) and environment automation
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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