Java, AWS and Kafka Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top‑notch technology products. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking’s Card Cobrand Technology Team, you are a core technical contributor responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes‑oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm‑wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Translates business objectives into clear technical plans, manages trade‑offs, aligns cross‑functional teams, and delivers complex initiatives on time with predictable outcomes.
• Applies modern engineering best practices, including test automation, CI/CD, rigorous code reviews, dependency and vulnerability management, and adherence to production readiness standards.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expert‑level proficiency in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot/Spring Framework), delivering high‑quality, scalable services and enforcing best practices (code quality, dependency management, testability, secure coding)
• Strong hands‑on experience building event‑driven architectures using Kafka/Kafka Streams, including event modeling, partitioning strategy, ordering/consistency tradeoffs, consumer group design, schema evolution, and resilient processing patterns
• Deep practical experience with messaging technologies such as Amazon SQS, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Active
  
  MQ, and IBM MQ, including design for reliability (DLQs, retries/backoff, idempotency, deduplication, at‑least‑once delivery handling)
• Extensive experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and microservices, applying modern patterns (service decomposition, circuit breakers/timeouts, bulkheads, saga/outbox patterns where applicable, backward‑compatible versioning)
• Hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Step Functions, and VPC, with strong understanding of security, networking, HA/DR, and cost/performance optimization
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational and No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL, Cassandra), including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, transaction/consistency considerations
• Practical experience delivering cloud infrastructure using Terraform, including reusable modules, environment promotion strategies, and CI/CD integration for repeatable deployments
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (or equivalent), demonstrating validated expertise in building and deploying solutions on AWS

• Advanced Cloud Certifications or Java Certifications
• Experience mentoring junior talent

The Consumer & Community Banking division serves Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We are proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most‑used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.

We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes base salary, commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, and a range of benefits such as health care coverage, on‑site wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer; we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute and we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and disability needs.