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Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, React, JavaScript, AWS

JPMorgan Chase
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/7/2026

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Global Banking Technology, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your expertise and contributions will promote significant business impact, as you apply your deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across various 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
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, mentoring, and coaching among team members.
  • Ensure adherence to Agile frameworks and best practices in software development.

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
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java, including hands-on experience with Spring Boot and reactive Java programming.
  • Frontend expertise in React.js, with a track record of building sophisticated, web-based user interfaces. Solid understanding of web technologies, UI/UX principles, and integration of frontend with backend services.
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Advanced hands on experience deploying applications to AWS using Kubernetes
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • Ability to mentor team members, resolve technical issues, and remove blockers to ensure project delivery
  • Experience with public cloud platforms, including deployment, scaling, and management of cloud resources. 
  • Strong database skills, including schema design, query optimization, and experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • AWS Certification 
  • Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaaS) to provision and manage AWS resources.

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