Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS/Agentic

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Employee Experience, you are an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers secure, stable, and scalable technology products.

You will drive meaningful business outcomes by applying deep technical expertise, strong engineering judgment, and a customer-focused mindset to solve complex problems across distributed systems, cloud, and artificial intelligence.

Job responsibilities


* Lead end-to-end design and delivery of scalable Java services and APIs, optimizing for performance, resiliency, and maintainability in production environments


* Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on Amazon Web Services, applying well-structured patterns for reliability, observability, and cost-aware scalability


* Mentor engineers through thoughtful code reviews, design guidance, and pragmatic engineering standards that raise quality and accelerate delivery


* Collaborate with product, design, and data partners to define technical strategies that improve user experience and automate key workflows


* Build and optimize data pipelines using Databricks and Apache Spark to enable analytics and machine learning workflows at scale


* Drive engineering excellence across continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, and secure software development practices


* Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.


* Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


* Advanced Java experience, including building Spring Boot-based services in a microservices architecture


* Experience with Java (Core & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud)


* Practical experience delivering system design, application development, automated testing, and operational stability for production systems


* Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications on Amazon Web Services (e.g., compute, storage, database, container, and serverless services)


* Experience with continuous integration and delivery and modern build/version control practices (e.g., Git, Maven/Gradle, and pipeline automation)


* Proficiency with automated testing approaches and frameworks (e.g., JUnit and mocking frameworks) and a strong quality-first mindset


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