Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, AWS at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Global Sales & Research Technology team, you'll be an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong hands-on Java development experience with Spring Boot
• Proven experience designing and building microservices architectures (REST APIs, service decomposition, patterns)
• Expertise in building resilient, scalable applications (fault tolerance, retries/timeouts, circuit breakers, idempotency, graceful degradation)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems (consistency, messaging/event-driven patterns, observability)
• AWS experience (core services, deployment/operations, security basics)
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and production support best practices (monitoring, logging, tracing)
• Strong design skills: system design, technical documentation, code reviews, and mentor
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (producers/consumers, topics/partitions, consumer groups, offsets)