JPMorgan Chase
Java / AWS Lead Software Engineer
$157K–$215K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads engineering work to design, build, secure, and operate scalable Java and AWS applications, while guiding team adoption of AI-assisted development practices.
What you'll do
- Designs, develops, reviews, and troubleshoots production software and scalable cloud solutions.
- Leads incident response, root-cause analysis, cloud optimization, and DevOps improvements.
- Guides responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools, including validation standards and team adoption.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Strong experience with Java, AWS, Spring Boot, and Terraform; working knowledge of SQL and software development best practices.
- Hands-on relational database and AWS services experience, plus automation and continuous delivery proficiency; demonstrated ability to lead safe, compliant use of approved AI-assisted tools.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies; certifications in Cloud, Kubernetes, or IaC.
- Understanding of payments processing in a banking environment.
Pay
USD $156,750.00-$215,000.00 base salary
Tools
Java, AWS, Spring, Spring Boot, Terraform, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS CloudFormation
AI focus
Leads adoption of approved AI-assisted engineering for coding, code review, refactoring, testing, and troubleshooting, with validation for correctness, performance, security, data sensitivity, and compliance.
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