Java, AWS and Kafka Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking's Card Cobrand Technology 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

• 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.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Translate business objectives into clear technical plans, manage trade-offs, align cross-functional teams, and deliver complex initiatives on time with predictable outcomes.
• Apply modern engineering best practices, including test automation, CI/CD, rigorous code reviews, dependency and vulnerability management, and adherence to production readiness standards.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot/Spring Framework), delivering high-quality, scalable services and enforcing best practices (code quality, dependency management, testability, secure coding).
• Strong hands-on experience building event-driven architectures using Kafka/Kafka Streams, including event modeling, partitioning strategy, ordering/consistency tradeoffs, consumer group design, schema evolution, and resilient processing patterns.
• Deep practical experience with messaging technologies such as Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, and IBM MQ, including design for reliability (DLQs, retries/backoff, idempotency, deduplication, at-least-once delivery handling).
• Extensive experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and microservices, applying modern patterns (service decomposition, circuit breakers/timeouts, bulkheads, saga/outbox patterns where applicable, backward-compatible versioning).
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Step Functions, and VPC, with strong understanding of security, networking, HA/DR, and cost/performance optimization.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, transaction/consistency considerations.
• Practical experience delivering cloud infrastructure using Terraform, including reusable modules, environment promotion strategies, and CI/CD integration for repeatable deployments.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (or equivalent), demonstrating validated expertise in building and deploying solutions on AWS.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced Cloud Certifications or Java Certifications
• Experience mentoring junior talent

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About the Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.