Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot
JPMorgan Chase2 days ago
Mumbai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a cross-functional Java backend and React frontend engineering team while improving delivery predictability and quality.
- Partner with Product and Delivery stakeholders to shape roadmaps, prioritize work, manage dependencies, and reduce release risk.
- Own the platform’s technical vision, architecture, integration contracts, versioning, and deprecation strategy.
- Establish reliability goals, observability, resilience patterns, production readiness, and operational improvements.
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews while reducing MTTR and change failure rates.
- Architect, implement, profile, and tune high-performance Java services and collaborate on API design and backward-compatible rollouts.
- Promote secure-by-default engineering, risk controls, automated testing, peer review, and responsible validation of AI-assisted development outputs.
- Coach engineers, support adoption of approved AI-assisted engineering tools, and promote effective engineering practices across the team.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on expertise with Java 17+, concurrency, memory management, object-oriented programming, Spring, Spring Boot, server-side frameworks, and API design.
- Experience building high-performance, latency-sensitive Java applications and maintaining mission-critical platforms.
- Experience converting business requirements into technical roadmaps, OKRs, and measurable deliverables with Product, Delivery, and business stakeholders.
- Experience leading the responsible use of approved AI-assisted software development tools, including validation for correctness, performance, security, and data sensitivity.
- Understanding of messaging technologies and computer networks, with familiarity with FIX and Solace.
- Experience troubleshooting software in Linux environments and deploying microservices on Kubernetes.
- Experience with test-driven development, modern source control, continuous integration, CI/CD, and release governance.
- Experience working with globally distributed engineers and communicating with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include engineering team leadership, mentoring and coaching experience, familiarity with Python and React, and experience in investment banking, fintech, financial markets, or CIB Markets.
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.