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Lead Software Engineer Full Stack Java or Python

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Wilmington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Oct 2025

About the role

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

  • 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

  • Creating user interfaces and interactive features for web applications using languages and frameworks like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

  • 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

  • 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 practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

  • Experience in software development of Micro services with Java, Spring Boot, Python

  • Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies

  • Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL and NoSQL databases.

  • Knowledge of Restful Web Services, WebSockets/JSON

  • Agile Development experience with SCRUM or similar methodologies

  • Advanced Proficiency in front-end languages (e.g.HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and back-end languages (e.g., Java, Spring, Python etc.). 

  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience managing projects end-to-end, from requirements scoping to successful launch.

  • Completed AWS Developer or Solution Architect Certification

  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

  • Proficiency in javascript including ES6 features

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