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JPMorganChase · 21 hours ago

Lead Software Engineer – Backend (Java or Python)

JPMorgan Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals. As a Lead Software Engineer within the Consumer and Community Banking Customer Acquisition and Marketing Platforms team, you will provide direction and oversight for a team of engineers while developing secure, high-quality production code and influencing product design and technical operations.

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Responsibilities

Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks
Executes solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
Work in an Agile development environment with team members, including Product Owners
Develop secure, high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others, and drive decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and technical operations
Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing
Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the end-to-end development life cycle
Influence peers and project decision makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

Qualification

JavaAWSREST servicesSpring BootDatabase experienceSoftware engineeringCoachingKafkaGraph databasesSnowflakeDatabricksMentoringProblem solvingCommunication skills

Required

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
5+ years of hands-on experience in Java, REST services, Spring and Spring Boot
2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS especially Terraform, EKS, ECS, and Lambda
2+ years of hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra)
Collaborate with various stakeholders and independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight
5+ years of demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operation stability
Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka
Above average database fundamentals – can write complex queries, understands how to organize data, and troubleshoot performance issues
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with strong customer focus
Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

Strong Python experience, especially in the context of developing Agentic and Data solutions for large financial platforms
Experience with Agentic technologies (esp. LangChain), including design and implementation of production-grade solutions
Experience using Snowflake, Databricks or a similar PaaS offering
Familiarity with Graph databases

Benefits

Comprehensive health care coverage
On-site health and wellness centers
A retirement savings plan
Backup childcare
Tuition reimbursement
Mental health support
Financial coaching

Company

JPMorganChase

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With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets.

H1B Sponsorship

JPMorganChase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (3471)
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2023 (3395)
2022 (3594)
2021 (2515)
2020 (2495)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
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1998-02-01IPO

Leadership Team

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Allison Beer
CEO of Card Services and Connected Commerce
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Dan Mendelson
CEO, Morgan Health
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