Lead Software Engineer - Data and Payments Business Observability Platform
JPMorgan Chase2 months 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 with reliable asynchronous processing, retries, and dead-letter queue patterns.
- Establish engineering standards for Spring Boot APIs, security, logging, performance, error handling, 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 efficient retrieval and query strategies.
- Establish AWS deployment strategies including blue/green deployments, 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.
- Drive production readiness through metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and proactive problem management.
- Lead responsible adoption and validation of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and automation.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- 2+ years of experience in a technical lead or lead engineer role driving design and delivery with cross-functional partners.
- Strong hands-on expertise with 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 in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and transactions, plus solid data modeling skills.
- Familiarity with NoSQL datastores and search technologies such as Elasticsearch.
- Experience with Databricks and securely connecting applications to retrieve data efficiently.
- 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 and output handling, resiliency, security, and compliant engineering practices.
- Experience deploying and operating services on AWS.
- Hands-on React experience with performance optimization for data-heavy screens and grids such as AG Grid.
- Hands-on Jenkins CI/CD experience and knowledge of automated testing, quality gates, release management, and rollback strategies.
- Preferred experience with AWS cloud-native design, IAM, networking, and operational practices.
- Preferred experience with distributed tracing and observability practices such as OpenTelemetry, log correlation, SLOs, and SLIs.
- Preferred experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
- Preferred experience with secure SDLC, secrets management, least privilege, dependency vulnerability management, 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 employment and reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and disabilities.
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.