JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer
Wilmington, DE · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of applied experience.
- Education
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads engineering work to design, build, and operate secure, scalable software products, including high-throughput APIs and cloud-based solutions.
What you'll do
- Provides technical guidance and direction to teams, contractors, and vendors; reviews and debugs code.
- Develops production code and influences product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
- Promotes engineering practices and leading-edge technologies across the engineering community.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced skills in one or more of Java, Springboot, Microservices, RESTful API, and Kubernetes; experience with API Gateways, Apache Kafka, Cassandra or other NoSQL DB, and cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise with observability tools such as Splunk, Kibana, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace; practical cloud native experience.
Nice to have
- AWS public cloud
- Spark or Python
Tools
Java, Springboot, Microservices, RESTful API, Kubernetes, API Gateways, Apache Kafka, Cassandra
AI focus
Requires technical knowledge in one or more disciplines, which may include artificial intelligence or machine learning; no specific AI work is described.
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