JPMorgan Chase
Sr Lead Software Engineer – Java/AWS
$176K–$260K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of application development experience.
About the job
Leads software engineering in an agile team, designing, building, and operating secure, reliable, scalable applications while promoting validated AI-assisted engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Design and troubleshoot complex software solutions; create architecture and design artifacts and ensure implementations meet constraints.
- Improve reliability and delivery through automated testing, CI/CD, resiliency practices, secure-by-design engineering, and reusable services.
- Lead responsible adoption of approved AI-assisted tools, set validation standards, and collaborate with teams to deliver accountable outcomes.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of application development experience delivering production-grade software.
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and production operational stability; enterprise coding and database query experience.
- Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages, with depth in at least one; experience building distributed Java 8+ applications using RESTful APIs, microservices, and Spring Boot.
- Experience with multi-threaded, high-throughput mission-critical systems and cloud-native development; demonstrated leadership in safe, compliant use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying and supporting applications on AWS.
- Experience with Kafka or IBM MQ; Cassandra, Oracle, Aurora, or DynamoDB; Cucumber; Jenkins; Python; or Linux shell scripting.
Pay
USD 175,750.00-$260,000.00 base salary
Tools
Java 8+, RESTful APIs, microservices, Spring Boot, GCP, AWS, Kafka, IBM MQ
AI focus
Leads responsible use of approved AI-assisted tools for coding, review, testing, and troubleshooting, with validation for correctness, performance, security, and data sensitivity.
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