Lead Software Engineer - Middleware

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer Banking, 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

• 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

• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of middleware software development experience

• Deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production services

• Develop software with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language

• Implement automation and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices

• Execute across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.

• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

• Apply in-depth knowledge of financial services and common enterprise IT systems

• Deliver solutions using practical cloud-native engineering experience

• Exposure to AWS with Terraform

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Server-side programming experience (Java; Java plus C/C#/Python acceptable)

• Experience designing and developing high-throughput, low-latency solutions for mission-critical 24/7 applications

• Spring experience (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Kafka)

• Experience distributing technologies and frameworks (Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop)

• Experience writing performant SQL and stored procedures (Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server/CockroachDB)

• Experience using messaging technologies (Kafka, WebSphere MQ/JMS, RabbitMQ)

• Experience building for testability and implement test automation (JUnit/Mockito, Cucumber/Gherkin), and use Git for source control