Lead Software Engineer - Backend
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 JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Digital Utilities team, 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
- 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
- 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
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Demonstrates knowledge of architecture and design across all systems
- Exhibits in multiple modern programming languages
- Utilizes in modern SDLC practices such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment
- Applies of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
- Possesses understanding of financial control and budget management
- Collaborates to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
- Extensive core Java development experience with Spring or similar framework
- Expert understanding of data structures, algorithms & multi-threaded programming
- Experience working on high throughput mission critical high-performance platforms
- Ability to influence architecture and design across distributed systems
- Experience in designing and building reusable services
Proven track record in application delivery and stakeholder management
- Hands-on experience with Java, Spring, AWS, Kubernaties, Kafka, Cassandra, Spark
Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with Oracle, Control-M, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, PowerMock, JMeter, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Jenkins
Experience developing open-source libraries or internal libraries that are integrated into applications by other internal teams
Experience with Cloud native software deployment
- Cloud certification
- Exceptional client relationship skills including the ability to discover true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical approaches, drive efforts to meet committed timelines with optimal solutions.
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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