JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer - Java, AI, Spring Boot and Kafka
$138K–$185K
Chicago, IL · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of applied experience, including hands-on delivery of system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Education
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads engineering for a next-generation equipment and asset finance platform, delivering secure, scalable lease origination, asset valuation, and lifecycle management capabilities.
What you'll do
- Designs, develops, tests, troubleshoots, and maintains production software to architectural and quality standards.
- Sets technical direction for a global feature team, mentoring engineers and partnering with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams.
- Promotes approved AI-assisted engineering practices and improves application stability, observability, code quality, and deployment reliability.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
- Advanced Java development, including Java 21+ and system design, concurrency, and modern language features.
- Advanced Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Framework 6.x experience, including microservices, RESTful APIs, and Kafka.
- Hands-on experience with React 18+, TypeScript, relational databases, and Hibernate / JPA; experience leading approved AI-assisted development and validating outputs.
Nice to have
- Experience with Next.js 14+, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Helm, or infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with testing and observability tools, Redis, GraphQL, data pipelines, or relevant financial-services and asset-finance domains.
Pay
$137,750.00-$185,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Java 21+, Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Framework 6.x, Kafka, React 18+, TypeScript, Oracle SQL / PostgreSQL, Hibernate / JPA, OpenAPI 3.x
AI focus
Leads adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development and automation, validating outputs for correctness, performance, security, and responsible handling of sensitive data.
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