Remote Java Software Engineer Jobs in Columbus, OH

Job Summary:
JPMorganChase is a leading financial services firm that focuses on helping individuals and small businesses achieve their financial goals. As a Lead Software Engineer within the Consumer and Community banking technology team, you will enhance and deliver technology products while driving significant business impact through your technical expertise and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities:
• Engage with development team throughout agile sprints to develop software for reliability and scale, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes
• Identify application patterns and analytics in support of better service level objectives. Design automated software and product upgrades, change management, and release management solutions.
• Gain Experience in Operating Services in Public Cloud, Strong grasp of SRE principles; SLIs/ SLOs, error budgets, incident management, observability, and resilience patterns. Hands-on with observability and incident tooling, Proficiency with CI/CD and deployment strategies
• Drive prioritized remediation programs across change/configuration, capacity/performance, dependency resilience, and code quality.
• Troubleshoot priority and escalation incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems and ensure permanent closure of incidents and subsequent problem tasks.
• Establish comprehensive automated functional testing with dependable regression suites integrated into CI/CD to gate releases; improve reliability and speed through robust test data and include non-functional checks (performance, resilience, accessibility) in pre‑prod and readiness reviews.
• Implement demand forecasting, load testing, and performance engineering in pre-prod; validate scale assumptions before peak events.
• Run game days and chaos experiments to validate failover, degraded-mode operation, and dependency timeouts.
• Embed shift‑left quality and partner with Product to mature testing practices: co‑define clear acceptance criteria and Definition of Ready/Done, align coverage to critical user journeys, and track quality KPIs (defect escape rate, automated coverage on key paths, change failure rate) tied to service objectives and release readiness.
• Utilize platform and automation
Qualifications:
Required:
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Extensive experience designing, deploying, and managing AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, ALB, Elastic Cache, Route 53, S3, IAM) using Terraform for automated, version-controlled provisioning.
• Proficient in writing modular, reusable Terraform code for multi-environment infrastructure automation, state management, and CI/CD integration.
• Hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on AWS EKS, including cluster setup, node groups, Kustomize, Helm charts, and service mesh integration.
• Proven track record supporting production platforms with incident response, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Skilled in designing and executing load, stress, and performance tests using JMeter and BlazeMeter to identify bottlenecks and optimize application performance.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages - Core Modern Java (Version 17 or higher) (Example: Streams, Multithreading, Collections, and Exception handling mechanism, Lamdas) or Python.
• Strong development experience building RESTful APIs, microservices, and enterprise applications using Java and Spring Boot with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
• Familiar with SRE principles including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, incident management, post-mortems, automation, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
• Experienced in leveraging Splunk, Datadog, and Dynatrace, Cloudwatch, X-Ray for log aggregation, real-time monitoring, alerting, APM, and performance troubleshooting in production environments.
Preferred:
• Developer or Solutions Architect Level AWS Certification
• Experience with any of these Observability tools: Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana.
• Experience with distributed databases like AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS Aurora, Cassandra, and Terraform infrastructure-as-code.
• Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages (JAVA, Python, SQL)
• Proficient in AI-assisted coding workflows (Copilot, Claude Code) and collaborative, iterative development with AI tools.
Company:
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. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.