As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Connected Commerce Technology, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Designs software solutions, including complex debugging and technical troubleshooting, using strong problem-solving and engineering judgment.
• Builds, tests, deploys, and supports applications and services with a focus on production readiness and operational stability.
• Writes and maintains secure, high-quality production code and algorithms that integrate reliably with upstream and downstream systems.
• Creates architecture and design artifacts for complex applications and ensure implementations adhere to defined design constraints.
• Analyzes large, diverse datasets and produce visualizations and reporting that drive continuous improvement of systems and applications.
• Identifies hidden problems and data patterns to improve coding hygiene, observability, and system architecture.
• Improves service reliability through automated testing, CI/CD, resiliency patterns, and secure-by-design engineering practices.
• Develops reusable services and shared components that enable consistency, scalability, and faster delivery across teams.
• Evaluates and adopts emerging technologies through communities of practice to deliver measurable engineering and business value.
• Collaborates within agile teams to deliver outcomes with clear technical ownership and delivery accountability.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of application development experience delivering production-grade software.
• Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in production environments.
• Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large enterprise environment using modern programming languages and database query languages.
• Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages, with demonstrated depth in at least one.
• Demonstrated experience building distributed applications in Java 8+, including RESTful APIs, microservices, and Spring Boot.
• Experience delivering multi-threaded, high-throughput, mission-critical systems with performance and latency considerations.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including design, delivery, testing, release, and support.
• Working knowledge of agile engineering practices including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Experience designing and building reusable services and shared components.
• Experience with cloud-native application development (e.g., GCP or private cloud).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience deploying and supporting applications on AWS.
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or IBM MQ.
• Experience with database platforms such as Cassandra, Oracle, Aurora, or DynamoDB.
• Experience with behavior-driven development tools such as Cucumber.
• Experience configuring and operating continuous integration pipelines such as Jenkins.
• Proficiency with Python and Linux shell scripting.
• Experience building open-source libraries or internal shared libraries adopted by multiple engineering teams.

ABOUT US

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.