Senior Lead Software Engineer- Java Backend

• *JOB DESCRIPTION**

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

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial \& Investment Bank Payments Technology team, 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 5\+ years applied experience

Hands\-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Strong hands\-on experience building modern applications **Java \+ Spring Boot** (backend) with **microservices**.
• **DevOps Fundamentals:** Strong working knowledge of **Git** and CI/CD tools such as **Jenkins**.
• **AWS / Cloud Skills:** Hands\-on experience with **AWS** (building/deploying cloud\-native services, working knowledge of core services and cloud security basics).
• **Strong Communication \& Problem Solving:** Clear communicator with strong analytical skills, able to collaborate effectively across Product, Architects and QA.
• 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

• *Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
• **System Architecture:** Designing and implementing autonomous agent architectures, including cognitive, memory, and planning capabilities.
• **Agentic Workflows:** Develop end\-to\-end multi\-agent systems where AI agents collaborate to perform tasks such as comprehensive system development, rigorous testing, and thorough validation to ensure reliability and performance. **React** (frontend)
• **Tool Integration:** Integrating LLMs with external APIs, databases, and software tools to allow agents to act independently.
• **Governance \& Safety:** Establishing guardrails and security protocols to ensure autonomous actions align with organizational policies.
• **Evaluation \& Optimization:** Debugging, monitoring, and evaluating agent performance (AgentOps) to optimize for accuracy and reliability.

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