Sr Lead Software Engineer Java

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank 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. 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

• 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 adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality delivery speed and operational outcomes (e.g. AI-assisted code review/refactoring test acceleration release readiness incident/root-cause analysis) while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding peer review automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
• 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

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Hands on experience in back-end software engineering ideally with Java as the primary programming language delivering production-grade services at scale.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability for distributed back-end platforms.
• Advanced in Java and common back-end frameworks and patterns (e.g. Spring Boot REST/gRPC microservices) with strong understanding of performance and concurrency.
• Advanced knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging/streaming systems (e.g. Kafka AWS SNS/SQS or comparable platforms) including event design ordering retries and idempotency.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight producing clear technical direction and measurable outcomes.
• Practical cloud native experience on AWS including building deploying and operating services using managed cloud capabilities and infrastructure-as-code.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g. for coding code review test acceleration troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness performance and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows including data sensitivity considerations secure handling of inputs/outputs and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
• Familiarity with applying AI capabilities to build solutions and enhance engineering workflows including responsible use of AI-assisted development tools and patterns.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience with AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot Claude Code or similar coding assistants to accelerate development workflows

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT: This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChases review of criminal conviction history including pretrial diversions or program entries.