Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Java/React
Company: JPMorganChase
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Description We have an opportunity to impact your career and
provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's
possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the
Asset & Wealth Management Marketing Technology team, you are 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
Architect, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java
(preferably Java 17) and Spring Boot. 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 Design RESTful and/or
GraphQL interfaces; ensure robust authentication, authorization,
and input validation. Own system performance, reliability,
observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and security best
practices. Write comprehensive automated tests (unit, integration,
end-to-end) and drive CI/CD excellence. Lead code reviews, mentor
engineers, and promote engineering standards and clean
architecture. 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 Adds to team culture of diversity,
opportunity, inclusion, and respect Required qualifications,
capabilities, and skills 10 Years of Experience Hands-on practical
experience delivering system design, application development,
testing, and operational stability Advanced in one or more
programming language(s) Proficiency in automation and continuous
delivery methods Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL,
MySQL) and at least one NoSQL store (e.g., MongoDB). Knowledge of
messaging/streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous processing.
Solid testing practices: JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test; front-end
testing with Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright.
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD,
Application Resiliency, and Security Demonstrated proficiency in
software applications and technical processes within a technical
discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning,
mobile, etc.) In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry
and their IT systems Practical cloud native experience Preferred
qualifications, capabilities, and skills Develop high-quality,
reusable React components (React 18, TypeScript) and front-end
features Hands-on with AWS services: ECS/EKS or Lambda, API
Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch.
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation). Experience
with Kubernetes and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) a plus.
Observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus.
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