Lead Software Engineer - Data and Payments Data Platform
JPMorgan Chase5 hours ago
Base Salary
$157k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of a scalable activity monitoring solution across React UI and Java/Spring Boot backend services.
- Design and evolve Kafka-based event-driven microservices workflows with retries, delivery semantics, and dead-letter queue patterns.
- Set engineering standards for Spring Boot services, including API design, security, logging, performance, and versioning.
- Translate monitoring and operational requirements into technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes with product owners and stakeholders.
- Design data access patterns across MySQL and Databricks and maintain performant retrieval strategies.
- Establish AWS deployment strategies including blue/green and canary releases, rollback, and configuration management.
- Own Jenkins CI/CD pipelines covering automated builds, tests, quality gates, release orchestration, and environment promotions.
- Build and maintain performant React interfaces and data-heavy AG Grid experiences.
- Improve production readiness through observability, alerting, incident runbooks, and proactive problem management.
- Lead responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and validation standards.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience, plus 2+ years in a technical lead or lead engineer role.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Boot and working proficiency in Python.
- Experience designing and operating Kafka-based systems, including topics, partitions, consumer groups, ordering, delivery semantics, retries, and dead-letter queues.
- Strong MySQL experience with schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions, and data modeling.
- Familiarity with NoSQL datastores and search technologies such as Elasticsearch.
- Experience with Databricks and secure, efficient application connectivity for data retrieval.
- Experience leading approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, resiliency, security, and compliant engineering practices.
- Experience deploying and operating services on AWS.
- Hands-on React experience, including performance optimization for data-heavy screens and grids such as AG Grid, plus Jenkins CI/CD and modern deployment practices.
- Preferred experience with AWS cloud-native design, IAM, networking, observability, distributed tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Terraform, CloudFormation, security-minded engineering, and monitoring or operational analytics platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation in cash or forfeitable equity.
- Comprehensive health care coverage and on-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support and a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSDatabricksDockerElasticsearchJavaJenkinsKubernetesMySQLPythonReactSpring BootTerraform
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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.