Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, React, AWS
JPMorgan Chase16 hours ago
Base Salary
$176k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own platform-level architecture and technical strategy for secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native platforms.
- Lead complex initiatives from discovery and design through delivery and operations, establishing reusable engineering standards, patterns, and reference implementations.
- Design and implement backend services, GraphQL APIs, React UIs, Module Federation micro-frontends, Hugo-based content pipelines, and integrations with Jira, Bitbucket, GitHub, and event-driven workflows.
- Build content discovery and authoring capabilities, including Lucene-based full-text search, documentation hosting, scaffolding, validation, and publishing pipelines.
- Write secure, high-quality, and documented code using Java, Spring Boot, React.js, GraphQL, Python, and Go.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance while partnering with product owners and stakeholders on roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
- Define and enforce standards for security, performance, availability, observability, cost efficiency, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, CI/CD quality gates, SSO, and role-based access control.
- Lead proofs of concept, evaluate technologies, promote secure-by-design practices, and drive responsible adoption and validation of AI-assisted engineering tools.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Expertise in distributed-system design, application architecture, technical leadership, cross-team initiatives, and engineering standards.
- Experience leading the effective use of 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, and security expectations in engineering workflows.
- Strong experience developing, debugging, and maintaining software in large enterprise environments using modern programming and database-querying languages.
- Hands-on proficiency in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python, with experience designing and delivering GraphQL and REST APIs.
- Deep full-SDLC experience with secure, resilient, observable systems and AWS cloud-native architectures, including ECS/Fargate, SNS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and multi-AZ or multi-region resiliency.
- Experience with agile engineering practices, CI/CD, application resiliency, security, mentoring, design reviews, and architectural decision-making.
- 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 connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
- Preferred experience with Terraform, relational and distributed databases including PostgreSQL, video streaming or content platforms, observability, performance optimization, and cloud cost governance.
- Preferred experience with Hugo, Artifactory, Lucene, Module Federation, Go CLI tools, content publishing platforms, RSS and email delivery, MCP, ADFS-based SSO, role-based access control, Bitbucket, and GitHub.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with benefits determined by eligibility, role, experience, skill set, and location.
- Comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation in cash or forfeitable equity.
- JPMorganChase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and disabilities.
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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.