JPMorganChase · 3 hours ago
AWS Lead Software Engineer-Full Stack/Java/Spark
880 Powder Mill Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19803, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expJPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. As an AWS Lead Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for a dynamic engineering team, partner with stakeholders to gather requirements, and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
Asset ManagementBankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Lead a multi-disciplinary agile team, setting clear goals, engineering standards, and delivery plans. Mentor and coach engineers, grow talent, and foster a culture of craftsmanship, ownership, and psychological safety. Drive architectural decisions, design reviews, and technical governance; ensure alignment with long-term platform strategy
Facilitate requirement gathering, story mapping, and scope definition with stakeholders; translate business needs into technical roadmaps. Own estimation, dependency management, and risk mitigation; maintain a healthy backlog and release plan. Communicate status and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders; ensure transparency on delivery and quality
Design and build new applications with modern, cloud-native architectures; modernize legacy systems for resilience and performance. Implement batch and real-time components following best practices for reliability, security, operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and performance. Establish and enforce quality gates: code reviews, automated unit/integration/acceptance tests, and secure-by-default patterns
Ensure strong CI/CD discipline, infrastructure-as-code, and automated deployments. Own production health with robust observability (metrics, logs, traces), incident response, and postmortems. Provide and coordinate Level 2 support; reduce toil and mean time to recovery through engineering improvements
Champion experimentation and continuous learning; introduce pragmatic innovations that improve developer experience and customer outcomes. Participate and lead agile ceremonies: standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, retrospectives
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Hands-on experience with Apache Spark or similar large-scale data processing engines
Experience designing, developing, and deploying software on AWS using services such as EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, and Aurora
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills across distributed systems
Proven experience driving end-to-end delivery: requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
Preferred
AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Developer, or Solutions Architect)
Experience using Terraform to deliver infrastructure-as-code on public cloud
Experience in coding Java applications with Spring Boot; experience designing resilient APIs and data models
Experience in Linux scripting (Bash, KSH) or Python for automation and tooling
Practical experience with event streaming (e.g., Kafka), relational/NoSQL databases, caching, and messaging
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling, test automation frameworks, and security best practices
Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and SRE principles
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
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.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Allison Beer
CEO of Card Services and Connected Commerce
Dan Mendelson
CEO, Morgan Health
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