Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, Kafka, Cloud
JPMorgan ChaseResponsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and direction to business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others.
- Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices, including code review, refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, and incident/root-cause analysis.
- Establish measurable validation standards for secure coding, peer review, automated testing, and AI-assisted engineering outputs.
- Use Software Development Life Cycle tooling, approved AI-assisted development capabilities, and automation to improve engineering outcomes at scale.
- Influence product design, application functionality, technical operations, and engineering processes.
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert and advocate for firmwide engineering frameworks, tools, and practices.
Requirements
- Proven expertise building large-scale, high-throughput applications.
- Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and parallel processing.
- Experience with performance analysis and tuning, including Java-based profiling and monitoring tools.
- Experience leading the effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, resiliency, and security expectations.
- Experience coaching senior engineers or leads on compliant AI usage patterns and controls.
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems with little to no oversight.
- Preferred experience with Kafka Streams, event-driven architecture, microservices architecture, behavior-driven design, Kubernetes, APIGEE Gateway, cloud services, agentic workflows, production agentic AI, and modern AI tooling.
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About JPMorgan Chase
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. We serve millions of customers and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients daily, managing assets and investments, offering business advice and strategies, and providing innovative banking solutions and services. Social Media Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/JPMCSocialTerms JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.