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Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java

JPMorgan Chase
Jersey, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 10/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/28/2025

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 Consumer & Community Banking – Digital Technology 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. In this role you will drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

  • Leads and executes creative software solutions, including design, development, and deep technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches to solve complex problems.
  • Actively develops and review secure, high-quality production code ensuring adherence to best practices.
  • Builds and optimizes event-driven systems to handle high-throughput, low-latency data streaming
  • Identifies and implements opportunities to automate recurring remediation tasks, improving operational stability.
  • 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
  • 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

 

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
  • 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, etc).
  • Extensive hands-on experience in designing, developing, and delivering complex enterprise applications.
  • Advanced proficiency in Java, J2EE, and RESTful API development for scalable, distributed systems.
  • Proven hands-on expertise in event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.
  • Strong hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB) and relational databases.
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous delivery methods.
  • Full proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies, application resiliency, and secure coding practices.

     

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience leading large-scale, distributed system designs and performance optimization efforts.
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead technical teams through delivery of high-impact initiatives.
  • AWS Developer, Architect certification.

 

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