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Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/AWS/Spring

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jersey City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Oct 2025

About the role

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 JPMorganChase 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Lead Software Engineer with a proven background in designing and delivering large-scale audience, data-hub, and real-time platforms. This position is ideal for a technical leader who excels at transforming complex data ecosystems into robust, production-grade solutions.

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
  • Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
  • Oversee end-to-end architecture for advanced data platforms, including audience management, data hubs, and real-time decisioning systems
  • Lead the design, delivery, and optimization of solutions that handle high volumes of data and meet sub-second SLAs
  • Guide and mentor engineering teams in technical delivery, best practices, and performance optimization
  • Influence cross-functional teams to adopt and integrate advanced data solutions.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Development experience in Java and/or Python
  • Experience building RESTful backend applications using Spring Boot
  • Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases such as Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, etc.
  • Experience in designing, building, and maintaining API services, with knowledge of Microservices Design Patterns
  • Experience working with tools like Terraform to provision AWS cloud services
  • Practical cloud native experience with AWS technologies, like Glue, Athena, and S3
  • 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
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and related IT systems
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6 features and experience with React Context API, Axios for API integration, Jest, Cypress, TypeScript, Webpack, React Query, and HTML/CSS
  • Familiarity with artificial intelligence and machine learning tools and frameworks
  • Experience with cloud-based architectures, big data technologies, and real-time analytics platforms
  • AWS Developer Certification 

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health

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