Java​/Kafka​/AWS​/Lead Software Engineer

Java/Spring/Kafka/ AWS/ Lead Software Engineer

Columbus, OH, United States and 1 more

• Job Identification
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Consumer & Community Banking
• Posting Date 01/29/2026, 03:25 PM
• Locations 1111 Polaris Pkwy, Columbus, OH, 43240, US 8181 Communications Pkwy Bldg F, Plano, TX, 75024, US
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Deposits 2.0 team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Owns and leads the governance of quality coverage across all scrum teams, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing
• Defines and monitors quality metrics such as coverage percentage, defect leakage, and automation effectiveness
• Provides technical guidance and conducts code/test reviews to ensure depth and completeness of test coverage
• Create scalable microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and CI/CD toolsets (including GIT, Jenkins, JUnit, and Mockito) to develop high-quality software
• Acts as the bridge between development and quality enablement, driving consistency and best practices across teams
• Leads, maintains and evolves test frameworks, tools, and CI/CD quality gates to support robust automation
• Analyzes codebases and pipelines to identify gaps in test coverage and improve testability and observability
• Integrates static analysis, code coverage, and test reporting tools into the delivery pipeline
• Leads and collaborates across multiple Tech Product teams in Consumer & Community Banking to maintain quality gates in CI/CD along with automation ROI reviews to guide teams toward effective and maintainable coverage
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong coding proficiency in Java and Spring Boot and familiar with other modern languages
• Deep expertise in test automation frameworks, for backend APIs and stream services, integrating coverage and quality metrics
• Solid understanding of contract testing, mocking frameworks, service virtualization, and automation best practices
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and toolsets (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab), SDLC, and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies, application resiliency, security, shift-left quality enablement
• Experience creating scalable microservices using Java, and Spring Boot,
• Strong experience in CI/CD toolsets (including GIT, Jenkins, JUnit, and Mockito) to develop high-quality software
• Hands-on leadership experience (3-5 years) with varying levels of Software Engineers in an agile Scrum environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong experience in AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Lambda, Aurora Postgres, Route
  53, ELB, API Gateway) and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience with AI/ML (Python) or related tools as applied to software quality, such as AI-driven test generation, defect prediction, or analytics
• Experience working in a very large Financial or Banking services technology environment

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to…