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**Lead Software Engineer (Java, AWS, Kafka) @ JPMorganChase** - Drive innovative software solutions, secure coding, and AI-assisted development. Key technologies: Java, Springboot, AWS. - Lead team adoption of AI-assisted practices, code reviews, and incident analysis. Improve delivery speed and operational stability. - Evaluate external services and lead communities of practice. Microservices, REST, SQL, NoSQL, Kafka, Spark, and Flink experience required. - 5+ years in software engineering, proven design and delivery of Kafka-based platforms. Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills. - Preferred: AWS certification, problem-solving excellence, and broad impact contribution. - Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Full Job Description
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, 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
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, 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
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- 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.
- 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
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
- Proficiency in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Springboot, Node.js ) with experience building microservices-based applications; for full-stack roles, proficiency also includes front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular).
- Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision.
- Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services, WebSockets, and JSON.
- Hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL and NoSQL databases.
- 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
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Led design and delivery of Kafka-based event streaming platforms/services in high-throughput (high TPS) environments; deep experience with event-driven architecture patterns and distributed systems reliability. Proven ability to lead technical direction: drive architecture decisions, write/own design docs, align stakeholders, and deliver through ambiguity.
- Experience improving operability (SLOs/SLAs, on-call readiness, monitoring, incident response, postmortems) for streaming systems. Hands-on experience building and operating high-volume data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (Spark SQL, Structured Streaming) and/or Apache Flink (DataStream/Table API) in production.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong soft skills, including presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and stakeholder management.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to drive broader impact by sharing and contributing best practices.
- AWS certification.
