Lead Software Engineer - Java, Python, Spring Boot, AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities:

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

• 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

• Designs, implements, and deploys secure, resilient, highly scalable, fault-tolerant services that integrate with enterprise systems; ensures functional, performance, scalability, security, governance, and auditability requirements are met

• 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

• Applies backend infrastructure patterns (e.g., load balancing, autoscaling) and implements monitoring/alerting for performance, scalability, availability, and reliability

• Drives consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promotes reuse of effective patterns across the team

• Leads and mentors junior team members in a high-pressure delivery environment; manages multiple deliverables across business groups and strengthens stakeholder relationships

• Defines and implements guardrails and evaluation approaches for agentic AI used in production applications to deliver business value while meeting quality, safety, latency, and cost requirements

• Collaborates with LOB users, SMEs, architects, DBAs, and system administrators to design solutions, manage enhancements, and resolve issues

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification in computer science or software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience in large-scale distributed systems, primarily in Java, modern Java/Spring Boot microservices, and Python

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• 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

• Strong experience with REST APIs and service-oriented / microservices architecture

• Strong experience with Spark and SQL; big data processing with focus on performance and optimization

• Kubernetes orchestration experience (building, deploying, and operating production services)

• Experience with AWS services and tooling (e.g., Terraform, EMR, EKS/ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3)

• Experience with log analytics / observability tools (e.g., Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog)

• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Excellent oral and written communication, and problem-solving skills

• Experience with Scala programming language

• Experience with or exposure to Snowflake or Databricks cloud platforms

• Experience with Open Table Format like Iceberg (preferred)