
at J.P. Morgan
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**Lead Software Engineer (Java, AWS, Kafka)** at JPMorganChase is responsible for driving agile team's technology enhancements within Collateral Services. Key responsibilities include creative software solutions, end-to-end feature development, fostering AI-assisted engineering practices, and Kafka service integration. Leverage Java, React, Kafka, and PostgreSQL/Aurora skills, along with AWS deployment. Proven leadership in enterprise-authorized AI tool integration, microservices, and API development is required.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Plano
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Location: Plano, TX, United States
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Investment Banking - Collateral Services, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firms 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
- Build features end-to-end across the Client Portal, from the React front end through Java microservices to the Postgres/Aurora data layer.
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
- Develop and maintain event-driven services using Kafka, integrating the portal with downstream services
- Deploy and support your work on AWS, participating in CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting in production.
- Debug and resolve issues across the stack, from front-end behavior to backend performance to database queries.
- Contribute in code reviews and share knowledge across the team.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Solid hands-on experience delivering production web applications.
- Strong backend skills in Java and building/maintaining microservices.
- Practical front-end experience with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Working experience with Kafka and event-driven patterns.
- Comfortable deploying and running services on AWS.
- Good PostgreSQL/Aurora skills writing efficient queries and understanding schema and performance.
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (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 engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
- Extensive experience in Microservices, API , Kafka.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience in a regulated or financial-services environment.
- Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes/ECS and CI/CD pipelines.
- Exposure to observability and monitoring tooling.



