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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Trust and Security Team, 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

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support secure, scalable, and resilient software solutions using Java, Spring Boot, AWS cloud technologies, and Kafka
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs, microservices, backend services, and event-driven integrations
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review, debug, and improve code written by others   
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.  
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions for highly available and maintainable applications
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across applications, cloud infrastructure, eventing platforms, and integrations
• Identify opportunities to eliminate, automate, or reduce recurring issues to improve operational stability
• Drive engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resiliency, secure coding, and production readiness
• Partner with product owners, architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned to business priorities and control requirements
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a 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
• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot (8 plus years)
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.   
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed backend services.
• Practical experience developing, deploying, or supporting applications using AWS cloud technologies
• Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle    
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience developing secure production code, performing code reviews, and improving engineering standards.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with experience improving production stability.

 Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expertise with modern middleware services technologies
• Experience with containerized application delivery and Kubernetes-based platforms
• Experience with Kafka-based event-driven architecture, messaging platforms, or streaming technologies
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code or cloud deployment automation
• Experience with performance tuning, resiliency testing, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Experience working in highly controlled or regulated technology environments
• Experience with security, identity, access, fraud, trust, risk, or customer protection platforms

Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve consumers, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits.  You'll support the delivery of award winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting edged mobile applications, digital experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.