Lead Software Engineer - Java, AI, Spring Boot and Kafka

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's Digital and Platform Services organization, you are an integral part of the Equipment & Asset Finance Technology team.

You will help 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 delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas and business functions in support of the firm's objectives.

Equipment & Asset Finance Technology supports equipment leasing, lease origination, asset valuation and tracking, portfolio servicing, and asset lifecycle management across multiple lines of business.

In this role, you will serve as a technical lead for the next-generation Equipment & Asset Finance platform, a multiyear strategic investment delivering modern lease origination, asset valuation, and lifecycle management capabilities at enterprise scale.
Job responsibilities



* Executes creative software solutions, design, development, testing, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems


* Develops secure and high-quality production code, reviews and debugs code written by others, and ensures solutions meet architectural standards and automated quality requirements


* Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards 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


* Leads a global feature team by setting technical direction, supporting pair programming, mentoring engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, and partnering with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams


* Identifies opportunities to improve application stability, observability, code quality, and deployment reliability while supporting applications across development, staging, and production environments

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



* Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 8+ years of applied experience, including hands-on delivery of system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


* Advanced Java development experience, including Java 21+, object-oriented analysis and design, concurrency, collections, streams, records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads


* Advanced experience with Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Framework 6.x, includin...