JPMorganChase · 16 hours ago
Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Java/Back-End
575 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$171K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expJPMorgan Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer, you will mentor agile technical teams and be responsible for developing secure and high-quality production code while driving significant business impact through your technical expertise.
FinanceBankingAsset ManagementFinancial Services
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
Lead the architecture, design, and development of Java/Spring‑based framework APIs and shared components that enable rapid, secure service development across multiple LOBs
Build low‑latency, high‑throughput APIs and event‑driven systems optimized for extreme transaction volumes and near‑zero downtime
Profiling, identifying, and optimizing existing code—including code developed by other team members
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Experience with strong architecture, design patterns, engineering best practices, analysis, design, security fundamentals, secure coding practices, and code review skills for internet applications
Experience with unit, integration, contract testing; experience with test automation frameworks and pipelines (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test)
Expertise in underlying third-party SDKs/components and protocols: AWS SDKs, HTTP connections, IBM MQ, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, GraalVM, TLS 1.3
Proficiency in service development using REST and SOAP, strong API design fundamentals; JSON/XML messaging and SOA
Knowledge of Databases and Data access frameworks like MyBatis, Hibernate, Oracle, Cassandra, CockroachDB
Ability to build with cloud-native microservices at scale: with Kubernetes/Docker/EKS, service discovery, configuration management; AWS services including NLB, ALB, SQS, Redis, S3, Route 53, API/NAT Gateways, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC; IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation
Familiarity with Messaging and event streaming API's (Kafka), caching (Redis), and familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL datastores
Exposure with observability tooling and practices (metrics, tracing, logs) and performance benchmarking at scale
Proficiency in Network/Security: Kerberos, TLS 1.3, OAuth2, ADFS, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy, SpiderMesh, OWASP
Proficiency in Frameworks and libraries: Spring/Spring Boot, SLF4J, Jackson, Hystrix, JMS
Preferred
Experience developing shared libraries/frameworks adopted by multiple product teams
Experience in large-scale enterprise or financial services
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
Current Stage
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unknown1998-02-01IPO
Leadership Team
Allison Beer
CEO of Card Services and Connected Commerce
Dan Mendelson
CEO, Morgan Health
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