Take your software engineering career to the next level with us. As a Lead Software Engineer (Java), you’ll join a collaborative team focused on building secure, scalable products that empower our senior leaders and drive innovation. You’ll work on exciting projects, including AI integration and collaboration solutions, while leading technical delivery, growing your impact, and helping others grow. Join us and experience a culture that values your expertise, encourages growth, and celebrates diversity.

As a Lead Software Engineer (Java) in our Product Team, you will design and develop internal applications that help our senior bank leaders prepare and run board meetings efficiently. You will work with us in an agile environment, collaborating on solutions that integrate with Microsoft 365 apps and leverage AI features. Your expertise will help us deliver secure, stable, and scalable products, while setting engineering standards, guiding design decisions, and mentoring teammates in a culture built on inclusion and respect. Together, we will innovate and create technology that matters.

Job responsibilities

Lead design and development of software solutions with creativity and technical expertise
Build secure, high-quality code to ensure system stability and synchronization
Own and drive architecture for complex applications, ensuring code meets design standards
Analyze existing enterprise app codebases to enhance functionality and build new services and APIs
Transform data into actionable insights through analysis and visualization
Drive automation of recurring issues to improve software stability and performance
Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to plan and prioritize work, and unblock delivery as needed
Engage in technology communities and events to explore emerging trends
Foster a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, promoting consistent engineering practices

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with AWS for developing and running cloud services
Formal training or certification in software engineering
Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and stability
Proficiency in Java and Spring frameworks
Experience coding, debugging, and maintaining applications in a large corporate environment with modern programming languages and databases
Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
Strong understanding of architecture, design, and business processes
Familiarity with agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
Excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration
Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, influence design decisions, and guide delivery

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with ReactJS for web application development
Exposure to mobile app development
Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices
Experience using AI models to solve complex problems
Skill in writing prompts and integrating AI into application code

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.

Sr Lead Software Engineer - Backend

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