Lead Software Engineer - Consumer Community Banking

Title: Lead Software Engineer, Consumer & Community Banking, Travel

As a Lead Software Engineer within Chase Travel, you will guide an agile team to design, build, and operate secure, stable, and scalable products.

You will own technical outcomes end-to-end, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers while advancing AI-First development practices that responsibly improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.

What you'll do


* Technical leadership and delivery
+ Lead the design and implementation of complex services and features across upstream/downstream systems; drive architecture decisions, API contracts, and versioning.
+ Own production readiness and operational excellence: SLOs, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement.
+ Champion secure-by-default and resilient designs (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads) and guide the team through trade-offs.


* Hands-on engineering
+ Write high-quality, secure code (Java, Spring Boot, React/Next.js) and perform rigorous code reviews that reinforce standards in testing, security, and performance.
+ Apply SDLC tooling to automate quality (CI/CD, code quality gates, test automation, dependency/security scanning).


* AI-First engineering practices
+ Integrate approved, privacy-safe AI assistants into the development workflow with human-in-the-loop review and objective CI gates.
+ Use AI to accelerate test generation, documentation, and static analysis triage; measure impact on throughput, defect rates, and code quality.
+ For AI features (if applicable), apply guardrails and evaluation: offline test sets, precision/recall metrics, latency budgets, and safe fallback paths.


* Collaboration and influence
+ Coordinate with product, architecture, and partner teams to align priorities, reduce integration risk, and ensure backward compatibility.
+ Mentor and coach engineers; lead design reviews and architecture decision records; foster an inclusive, high-trust team culture.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 1-3 years leading delivery for a squad or stream of work.


* Proven expertise in one or more: Java, Spring Boot, React/Next.js; strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and system design.


* Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing strategy, and operational stability in large, distributed environments.


* SDLC excellence: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit, integration, contract, E2E), code quality gates, and observability (logs, metrics, traces).


* Security and resiliency: OWASP Top 10, OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, encryption in transit/at rest, and resilient integration patterns.


* Database proficiency: SQL and a NoSQL store; query optimization, indexing, transactions, and caching strategies.
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