
Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, React, JavaScript, AWS
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 17 days ago
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Senior Lead Software Engineer on an agile Global Banking Technology team at JPMorgan Chase. The role requires hands-on design and delivery of secure, scalable applications using Java (Spring Boot, reactive), React.js frontends, and AWS/Kubernetes deployment. You will provide technical leadership, mentor teammates, influence product and architecture decisions, and ensure adherence to SDLC and Agile best practices. Strong database, cloud, and infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred) is expected.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Chicago
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
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 Commercial & Investment Bank - Global Banking Technology, you will 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. Your expertise and contributions will promote significant business impact, as you apply your deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across various 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 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
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, mentoring, and coaching among team members.
- Ensure adherence to Agile frameworks and best practices in software development.
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
- Expert-level proficiency in Java, including hands-on experience with Spring Boot and reactive Java programming.
- Frontend expertise in React.js, with a track record of building sophisticated, web-based user interfaces. Solid understanding of web technologies, UI/UX principles, and integration of frontend with backend services.
- 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, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Advanced hands on experience deploying applications to AWS using Kubernetes
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- Ability to mentor team members, resolve technical issues, and remove blockers to ensure project delivery
- Experience with public cloud platforms, including deployment, scaling, and management of cloud resources.
- Strong database skills, including schema design, query optimization, and experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- AWS Certification
- Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaaS) to provision and manage AWS resources. Drive significant business impact and tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications




