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Lead Software Engineer - Back End Java or Python

JP Morgan

5 - 10 years

New York

Posted: 23/05/2026

Job Description

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, 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

  • Deliver end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native microservices architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices​
  • Use domain modelling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.​
  • Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.​
  • Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.​
  • Develop secure code so that our customers and ourselves are protected from malicious actors.​
  • Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.​
  • Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.​
  • See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.​
  • Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems and ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.​
  • Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.​
  • Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in production and during incident management​

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer​
  • Experience in coding in a recent version of the Java programming language​
  • Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.)​
  • Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.​
  • Knowledge of messaging frameworks.​
  • Seasoned with operating, supporting and the security of mission critical software applications.​
  • Understanding with different kinds of data stores (including relational data stores)​
  • Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL and NoSQL databases.

About Company

JP Morgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest and most prestigious financial institutions, headquartered in New York City. It operates in over 100 countries, providing a wide range of financial services including investment banking, asset management, commercial banking, and wealth management.The company serves corporations, governments, institutions, and individual clients, offering expertise in areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities trading, and credit management. Known for its global reach and financial strength, JP Morgan is a leader in innovation and sustainability within the banking industry.

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