Lead Software Engineer - Java, React, AWS
JPMorgan Chase1 day ago
Base Salary
$157k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own platform-level architecture and technical strategy for secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native platforms.
- Lead technical initiatives from discovery and design through delivery and operations, establishing reusable engineering standards, patterns, and reference implementations.
- Design and implement backend services, GraphQL and REST APIs, React UIs, Module Federation micro-frontends, and Hugo-based static content pipelines.
- Build integrations with Jira, Jira Align, Jira Plan, Bitbucket, GitHub, and event-driven notification and delivery workflows.
- Own content discovery, full-text search, documentation hosting, authoring, validation, build, and publishing capabilities.
- Write secure, high-quality code in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go while applying strong engineering practices.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on guidance, and lead architectural decisions across teams.
- Set standards for security, performance, availability, observability, cost efficiency, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, CI/CD quality gates, SSO, and role-based access control.
- Evaluate technologies, lead proofs of concept, promote threat modeling and secure-by-design patterns, and identify technical risks.
- Drive responsible adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering tools and automation across the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical outcomes, roadmaps, product metrics, and KPIs.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Expertise in distributed systems, application architecture, technical leadership, standards-setting, and cross-team initiatives.
- Experience leading responsible use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI practices, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, security, and compliant engineering adoption.
- Strong enterprise experience developing, debugging, and maintaining software using modern programming and database-querying languages.
- Hands-on proficiency in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, and REST API design and delivery.
- Deep SDLC experience with secure, resilient, observable systems and AWS cloud-native architectures, including multi-AZ and multi-region designs.
- Ability to mentor engineers, lead design reviews, guide architecture, and improve reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
- Advanced knowledge in at least one technical discipline such as cloud, AI/ML, mobile, or data platforms.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to align technical decisions with business and product strategy.
- Preferred: Terraform infrastructure as code, relational and distributed databases including PostgreSQL, media or content platforms, caching, observability, performance optimization, and cloud cost governance.
- Preferred: Hugo content pipelines, Artifactory, Lucene search, Module Federation micro-frontends, Go CLI tools, content publishing platforms, RSS and email delivery, MCP, ADFS-based SSO, role-based access control, Bitbucket, and GitHub integrations.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location; compensation figures are not specified.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation in cash or forfeitable equity.
- Benefits may include comprehensive health care, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching, subject to eligibility.
Tech Stack
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.