Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS, golang

• *JOB DESCRIPTION**

Assume a critical role in defining the future of a globally recognized firm and have a direct and significant effect in a realm tailored for top achievers

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial \& Investment Bank, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market\-leading 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*** Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high\-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise\-authorized AI\-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI\-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root\-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise\-authorized AI\-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• 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

• *Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8\+ years' applied experience
• Hands\-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient hands\-on experience in Java, Go\-Lang programming languages using micro\-services architecture
• Strong database fundamentals across both SQL and NoSQL, including data modeling and design patterns, indexing strategies, query optimization, and transaction management
• Hands\-on experience deploying and operating workloads in **private Kubernetes environments** and within the **AWS Kubernetes ecosystem** (e.g., EKS), including Deployments, Services, Ingress, configuration and secrets management, and autoscaling
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI\-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In\-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

• *Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**

• Messaging/streaming systems (Kafka/SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ) and event\-driven architectures.
• Experience with service mesh / advanced traffic management (e.g., Istio/Linkerd) and API gateways
• Infrastructure\-as\-Code exposure (Terraform/CloudFormation) and environment automation

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