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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Employee Platform, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted HR 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

Leads by coding: delivers hands-on full-stack features and platform capabilities in Java and React, setting the bar for engineering quality
Builds and maintains RESTful APIs end-to-end (design, implementation, testing, versioning, documentation, and support) with strong focus on performance and backward compatibility
Develops secure, high-quality production code and drives peer reviews, debugging, and refactoring to improve maintainability
Engineers AWS-native services hands-on, including build/deploy/operate/troubleshoot, with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform)
Automates recurring operational issues and improves stability through CI/CD, observability, resiliency patterns, and disciplined production ownership
Leads architecture discussions and vendor/internal evaluations, translating decisions into working code and measurable outcomes
Leads communities of practice and adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications, including technical leadership responsibilities
Advanced proficiency in Java, strong full-stack experience (including React), and expert-level RESTful API development with strong SQL skills
Deep, hands-on AWS experience designing, building, deploying, and operating cloud-native services; infrastructure as code experience (e.g., Terraform)
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery; advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security across the SDLC
Strong production ownership skills (monitoring/alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational stability improvements)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
Experience with containers/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) and observability tooling (logging/metrics/tracing)
Familiarity with API governance and security patterns (authN/authZ, throttling, contract testing)

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Lead Software Engineer-Java

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