Java Sr. Lead Software Engineer - US Regulatory Reporting Technology

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Global Finance 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


* Lead by example: contribute production-quality code daily, write tests, perform code reviews, and pair program.


* Design and deliver secure, high-quality microservices and web applications with Java/Spring Boot and React; own deep debugging, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning for high-availability services.


* Own end-to-end build-and-run: design, implement, test, deploy, and operate services ("you build it, you run it").


* Provide technical leadership across teams; set engineering standards and coach on architecture, code quality, security, and operational excellence.

The role mix is 60-70% hands-on engineering (design, coding, testing, debugging, performance tuning, ops) and 30-40% technical leadership (architecture decisions, standards, mentoring, strategy)


* Act as SME for microservices, CI/CD, observability, performance engineering, and data modeling.


* Champion SDLC practices: test automation, CI/CD, security-by-default, quality gates, and disciplined change management.


* Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and auditability.


* Embed non-functional requirements (security, scalability, reliability, observability, cost) into designs; implement logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs, error budgets, alerting, and runbooks.


* Foster an inclusive team culture; mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement and craftsmanship.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification in software engineering and 5+ years of applied experience in related technologies.


* Advanced proficiency in Java and Spring Boot; strong fundamentals, design patterns, and secure coding.


* Full-stack delivery with React (component/state management) and secure RESTful API design.


* Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM), including containerized workloads, networking, and secrets management.


* Microservices design, deployment, and operations.


* CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), automated testing (unit/integration/contract), and enforcing quality gates.


* Relational and NoSQL databases: schema design, performance tuning, and secure data access.


* Monitoring and logging with DataDog, Dynatrace, and/or Splunk.


* Reliability and p...