Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Java/Back-End
Company: JPMorganChase
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Description When you mentor and advise multiple agile technical
teams and move financial risk technologies forward, it’s a big
challenge with big impact. Join our team and be an integral part of
our agile organization to deliver the best risk solutions for the
firm. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within
Consumer & Community Banking , 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. Drive significant business impact through your
capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise
and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of
challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. Job
responsibilities 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 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 Influences peers and project decision-makers
to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Lead the architecture, design, and development of Java/Spring?based
framework APIs and shared components that enable rapid, secure
service development across multiple LOBs. Build low?latency,
high?throughput APIs and event?driven systems optimized for extreme
transaction volumes and near?zero downtime. Profiling, identifying,
and optimizing existing code—including code developed by other team
members. Required Qualifications , capabilities, and skills Formal
training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5
years applied experience. Experience with strong architecture,
design patterns, engineering best practices, analysis, design,
security fundamentals, secure coding practices, and code review
skills for internet applications. Experience with unit,
integration, contract testing; experience with test automation
frameworks and pipelines (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test). Expertise
in underlying third?party SDKs/components and protocols: AWS SDKs,
HTTP connections, IBM MQ, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, GraalVM, TLS
1.3. Proficiency in ? service development using REST and SOAP,
strong API design fundamentals; JSON/XML messaging and SOA.
Knowledge of Databases and Data access frameworks like MyBatis,
Hibernate, Oracle, Cassandra, CockroachDB. Ability to build with
cloud?native microservices at scale: with Kubernetes/Docker/EKS,
service discovery, configuration management; AWS services including
NLB, ALB, SQS, Redis, S3, Route 53, API/NAT Gateways, Secrets
Manager, IAM, VPC; IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.
Familiarity with Messaging and event streaming API's (Kafka),
caching (Redis), and familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL
datastores. Exposure with observability tooling and practices
(metrics, tracing, logs) and performance benchmarking at scale.
Proficiency in Network/Security: Kerberos, TLS 1.3, OAuth2, ADFS,
Envoy Proxy, HAProxy, SpiderMesh, OWASP. Proficiency in Frameworks
and libraries: Spring/Spring Boot, SLF4J, Jackson, Hystrix, JMS.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience
developing shared libraries/frameworks adopted by multiple product
teams. Experience in large?scale enterprise or financial
services.
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