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Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack - Java, React, AWS

JPMorgan Chase
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/19/2026

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Payments team, 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 creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  • Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  • Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
  • Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to team culture of opportunity, inclusion, and respect
  • Proactively problem solves with eagerness and curiosity to learn new technologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced hands on experience with JavaScript, ReactJS, or similar scripting language
  • Hands-on programming/application development experience Java, Spring Boot, REST/API Proficiency in: SQL/Hibernate, Messaging (Kafka), application performance testing and tuning
  • Ability to convert wireframes and Figma designs into clean, maintainable code
  • Hands on knowledge of AWS offerings (ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda ,Terraform etc)
  • Good knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes
  • Ability to troubleshoot networking technologies and resolve common issues
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in large teams. 
  • Hands on experience identifying and implement innovative solutions to meet business needs

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to real-world products
  • Financial Services Industry or Payments experience

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