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Lead Software Engineer - Java/Spring Boot/React

JPMorgan Chase
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/7/2026

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology organization, you will play a crucial role as part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products with a focus on security, stability, and scalability.

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 diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
  • Owns the end-to-end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
  • Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
  • Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Hands-on coding experience in in Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services
  • Hands-on coding experience in React
  • Expertise in designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • 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.)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Camunda web flow knowledge
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

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