Lead Software Engineer - Java, Springboot, Kafka
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 17 days ago
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Lead Software Engineer role on the Consumer and Community Banking Technology team at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for designing, developing, and delivering secure, scalable software solutions. The role focuses on Java, Spring, REST services, microservices, and cloud-native architectures, with emphasis on automation, CI/CD, and operational stability. Acts as a core technical contributor and leader, driving architecture reviews, community of practice activities, and collaboration with vendors and internal teams. Requires deep technical experience in software engineering within financial services and practical experience with containerization and streaming technologies like Kafka.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Atlanta
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Location: Atlanta, GA, United States
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 Consumer and Community Banking Technology team, you 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. As a core technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve 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
- Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance
- Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
- 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
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Java software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience with Spring and REST services
- Experience with J2EE and microservices design and development
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- 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.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience in RDBMS (Oracle)
- Experience with Containers and Kafka or any streaming technology
- Experience with various source control tools like GIT
- Understanding of Jenkins CI/CD, Maven/Gradle
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace tools
