Lead Software Engineer - Java, Kafka, AWS

Company: JPMorganChase

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $152k - $215k per year

Type: Full-time

Posted: 2026-03-15

About this role

Job Description
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Lending Innovation product, 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 firm’s business objectives.


Job Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of 6-8 engineers with a strong focus on Java and AWS technologies, ensuring effective collaboration and communication
  • 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 for quality assurance.
  • 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 partners 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 software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands on experience with Java,J2EE, Sprint/Spring boot, AWS services, including ECS, EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, EventBridge, SNS and related technologies
  • Strong familiarities with micro-service designs and proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Deep techni...

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