Lead Software Engineer- Java / Kafka / AWS / Terraform

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As a Lead Software Engineer- Java / AWS / Terraform / Kafka at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community 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 5+ years applied experience


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


* Advanced experience in Java Server-side programming including Spring experience (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Kafka)


* Experience designing and developing high-throughput, low-latency solutions for mission-critical 24/7 applications


* Experience with development of distributing technologies and frameworks


* Experience writing performant SQL and stored procedures (Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server/CockroachDB)


* Experience using messaging technologies (Kafka, WebSphere MQ/JMS, RabbitMQ)


* Experience building for testability and implement test automation (JUnit/Mockito, Cucumber/Gherkin), and use Git for source control


* Demonstrated experi...