Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, Kafka, Cloud
JPMorgan Chase · Posted Oct 2
Global banking, investment, credit card, mortgage, and asset management services
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About the role
JPMorganChase's Payments Technology organization builds and delivers trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. The team works in an agile model on large-scale, high-throughput payments platforms spanning Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud-native services. This Senior Lead Software Engineer role provides technical direction to business and technical teams, develops and reviews production code, and drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and automation across the software development life cycle.
What you will do
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Proven expertise in building large scale & high throughput application
- Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka & cloud native applications
- Proficient in distributed systems and parallel processing
- Proficient in Performance Analysis and Tuning (Working knowledge of Java based Profiling and Monitoring Tools)
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (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 senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
Preferred qualifications
- Working experience of Kafka Streams, Even Driven Architecture, Microservices Architecture
- Good understanding of Behavior driven design
- Understanding of Kubernetes, APIGEE gateway and cloud services
- Working knowledge of agentic workflows
- Proven production deliverables in agentic AI
- Hands-on across the modern AI toolchain
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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