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Lead Software Engineer - Java

Jobright.ai
Jersey, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 4/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2026

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Job Summary:

JPMorgan Chase is a leading financial services firm that helps households and small businesses achieve their financial goals. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of an agile team responsible for enhancing, building, and delivering technology products while driving AI innovation and ensuring adherence to engineering standards across the organization.


Responsibilities:

• Creates engineering standards and best practices for a broad range applications to be applied across the organization

• Collaborates with architects, engineering directors, and senior application engineers to identify and incorporate business and technology requirements into standard approaches

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

• Drives adoption of best practices, ensuring high standards of quality, security, and efficiency are maintained across all projects

• Develops tools and practices for ensuring adherence to coding standards and architectural approaches, utilizing industry-standard and the latest AI/ML approaches

• Creates and manages POCs to evaluate the feasibility and impact of new technologies and methodologies, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.

• Leads AI innovation initiatives by identifying opportunities to integrate artificial intelligence into existing and new products, enhancing the firm's technological capabilities.

• Explores and develop strategies for the implementation of cutting-edge technologies across the organization, ensuring they align with the firm's long-term objectives.

• Advises cross-functional teams on technological matters within domain of expertise. Create durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions.

• Influence leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.


Qualifications:


Required:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience with Java/Spring/Spring Boot and AWS or any cloud related technologies.

• Solid experience on application design, coding on Java 8/J2EE distributed application development, REST

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

• Solid understanding of Domain model micro services, Spring Boot, Netflix frameworks, API gateway

• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

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

• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Experience in ensuring successful design, development, testing, and implementation of application components for online application using technologies including Core Java, J2EE technologies, web services, tomcat, servlets, JSP, Messaging

• Experience in XML and Service Oriented Architecture; and Experience in designing and implementing Restful webservices, unix jobs, writing stored procedures and testing the existing application using Junit.

• Experience with Servlets, JNDI, JMS, JDBC, SQL; Databases such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server; Operating Systems such as Unix Solaris; Products such as IBM WebSphere, Subversion, Axis, Spring Application Framework


Preferred:

• Programming with NoSQL/NPL a plus (Cassandra)

• Familiar with big data technologies - Spark, Scala, HDFS

• Familiar with modern infrastructure technology and architecture (cloud, virtualization, object stores, etc.)


Company:

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. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company. JPMorganChase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

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