Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot - Chicago

Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements:

• Formal software engineering training or certification, plus 8+ years of applied experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced Java experience, including Java 21+, object-oriented design, concurrency, collections, streams, records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads
• Advanced experience with Spring Boot 3.x or Spring Framework 6.x, Spring Security, Spring Data, microservices, domain-driven design, REST APIs, OpenAPI 3.x, and Kafka-based event-driven development
• Hands-on full-stack and data experience with React 18+, TypeScript, Oracle SQL or PostgreSQL, and Hibernate or JPA
• Demonstrated leadership in using approved AI-assisted development tools and validating their outputs for correctness, performance, security, and responsible handling of sensitive data; advanced knowledge of Agile delivery, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Preferred: Experience with React hooks, context, state-management tools, component design systems, and Next.js 14+
• Preferred: Cloud-native development on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including managed compute, storage, messaging, and secrets-management services
• Preferred: Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Preferred: Automated testing and observability tools such as JUnit 5, Mockito, Testcontainers, Pact, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Preferred: Redis, GraphQL, and data-pipeline technologies such as Apache Spark or Flink
• Preferred: Production support, incident management, or experience in financial services, equipment leasing, lease accounting, asset valuation, commercial lending technology, or asset lifecycle workflows

• Design, develop, test, and troubleshoot software solutions, applying creative approaches to complex technical problems
• Build secure, high-quality production code; review and debug others code; and ensure solutions meet architectural standards and automated quality requirements
• Promote enterprise-approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes; establish validation standards and encourage reuse of effective patterns
• Use software development lifecycle tools, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to increase the value of automation
• Lead a global feature team by setting technical direction, supporting pair programming, mentoring engineers, contributing to architecture decisions, and partnering with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams
• Improve application stability, observability, code quality, and deployment reliability across development, staging, and production environments

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Flink
• GCP
• Grafana
• GraphQL
• Helm
• Hibernate
• Incident Management
• Support
• JPA
• JUnit
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• OpenAPI
• OpenTelemetry
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Pulumi
• REST
• React
• Redis
• SQL
• Security
• Spark
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• microservices

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect professionals with this Lead Software Engineer opportunity at J.P. Morgan. The role is within our Commercial & Investment Banks Digital and Platform Services organization, on the Equipment & Asset Finance Technology team. You will help deliver a multiyear strategic investment in a next-generation platform for lease origination, asset valuation, and lifecycle management at enterprise scale. We serve consumers, businesses, and institutional and government clients, and our Commercial & Investment Bank operates across banking, markets, securities services, and payments in more than 100 countries. We offer a competitive total rewards package, with compensation based on role, experience, skills, and location, along with eligible incentive pay and benefits such as healthcare, wellness resources, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching. We value diversity and inclusion, are an equal opportunity employer, and provide reasonable accommodations.

last updated 41 week of 2026