Lead Software Engineer - Middleware
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 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
- 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-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
- 5+ years of middleware software development experience
- Deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production services
- Develop software with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language
- Implement automation and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices
- Execute across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Apply agile engineering practices, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security-focused development
- Demonstrate proficiency in a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
- Apply in-depth knowledge of financial services and common enterprise IT systems
- Deliver solutions using practical cloud-native engineering experience
- Exposure to AWS with Terraform
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Server-side programming experience (Java; Java plus C/C#/Python acceptable)
Experience designing and developing high-throughput, low-latency solutions for mission-critical 24/7 applications
- Spring experience (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Kafka)
- Experience distributing technologies and frameworks (Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop)
- Experience writing performant SQL and stored procedures (Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server/CockroachDB)
- Experience using messaging technologies (Kafka, WebSphere MQ/JMS, RabbitMQ)
Experience building for testability and implement test automation (JUnit/Mockito, Cucumber/Gherkin), and use Git for source control
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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