Lead Software Engineer - Backend Engineer; Java​/AWS​/Kafka)

New York, NY, United States

• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Consumer & Community Banking
• Locations 450 W 33rd St, New York, NY, 10001, US
• Job Schedule Full time

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within Consumer and Community Banking, you’ll be a key technical leader on an agile team building secure, stable, scalable back-end platforms. You’ll shape designs, write production code, and guide delivery across teams to solve meaningful business problems with modern engineering practices.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of distributed, event-driven back-end services (Java, Kafka, AWS), from concept through production support
• Set architecture direction and standards for scalability, reliability, and observability across services
• Partner with product, architecture, and platform teams to turn requirements into resilient designs and executable roadmaps
• Raise engineering quality through strong CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, and operational readiness (SLIs/SLOs, on-call)
• Own production operations for critical services (monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement)
• Drive data modeling and API design for high-throughput, low-latency systems, including backward compatibility and schema evolution

Mentor engineers through design reviews, pair programming, coaching, and technical guidance

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expert proficiency in Java (Java 17+), including concurrency, collections, and performance tuning/profiling
• Hands‑on experience building and operating distributed systems with Apache Kafka (e.g., partitions/consumer groups, exactly‑once semantics, schema management)
• Strong AWS experience and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, S3, KMS, IAM, Cloud Watch; Terraform or Cloud Formation)
• Strong grasp of event-driven and microservices architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous messaging patterns
• Proven experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, and safe deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green or canary)
• Solid reliability and observability fundamentals (e.g., retries/idempotency/timeouts; logs/metrics/tracing)
• Experience leading projects/teams, setting technical direction, and delivering complex production systems
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum (or similar)

• End-to-end delivery experience from scope through launch, including cross-team coordination
• Experience with Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Micrometer, and reactive programming (Project Reactor)
• Familiarity with modern security practices (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, secrets management, least‑privilege IAM, threat modeling)
• Experience with high-throughput systems and stream processing (Kafka Streams and/or Spark), including exactly‑once patterns
• Exposure to DDD and modern architecture patterns (hexagonal/clean architecture)
• Hands‑on use of observability/production tooling (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana)

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 solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.

These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site health and wellness centers, a retirement…