Lead Software Engineer

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Lead Software Engineer in USA

JPMorgan Chase
Full time
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USA
09/17/2026
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Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of a scalable activity monitoring solution across React UI and Java/Spring Boot backend services.
Design and evolve Kafka-based event-driven microservices workflows with retries, delivery semantics, and dead-letter queue patterns.
Set engineering standards for Spring Boot services, including API design, security, logging, performance, and versioning.
Translate monitoring and operational requirements into technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes with product owners and stakeholders.
Design data access patterns across MySQL and Databricks and maintain performant retrieval strategies.
Establish AWS deployment strategies including blue/green and canary releases, rollback, and configuration management.
Own Jenkins CI/CD pipelines covering automated builds, tests, quality gates, release orchestration, and environment promotions.
Build and maintain performant React interfaces and data-heavy AG Grid experiences.
Improve production readiness through observability, alerting, incident runbooks, and proactive problem management.
Lead responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and validation standards.

Requirements

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience, plus 2+ years in a technical lead or lead engineer role.
Strong hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Boot and working proficiency in Python.
Experience designing and operating Kafka-based systems, including topics, partitions, consumer groups, ordering, delivery semantics, retries, and dead-letter queues.
Strong MySQL experience with schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions, and data modeling.
Familiarity with NoSQL datastores and search technologies such as Elasticsearch.
Experience with Databricks and secure, efficient application connectivity for data retrieval.
Experience leading approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, resiliency, security, and compliant engineering practices.
Experience deploying and operating services on AWS.
Hands-on React experience, including performance optimization for data-heavy screens and grids such as AG Grid, plus Jenkins CI/CD and modern deployment practices.
Preferred experience with AWS cloud-native design, IAM, networking, observability, distributed tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Terraform, CloudFormation, security-minded engineering, and monitoring or operational analytics platforms.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation in cash or forfeitable equity.
Comprehensive health care coverage and on-site health and wellness centers.
Retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support and a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.

Salary: $157k - $215k/yr

JPMorgan Chase

With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. We serve millions of customers and many of the ...

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