Lead Software Engineer - Java, React

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Payments team, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• 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
• 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
• Develop and maintain web applications using React for the front-end and Java Spring Boot for the back-end along with working knowledge in Kotlin.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate them with front-end components.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Debug and resolve technical issues across the stack.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.
• Work with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and frameworks.

• Proficiency in React. js, including state management libraries like Redux or Context API.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and building RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Docker, or Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is a plus.