Lead Software Engineer - Java & AWS
JPMorgan Chase & Co. · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Lead Software Engineer will design, develop, and troubleshoot secure software solutions while driving the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices. They will also lead technical evaluation sessions and foster communities of practice to promote innovation and operational stability.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in system design, application development, and operational stability with proficiency in Java, AWS, and microservices. Strong leadership skills and experience with AI-assisted development tools are required to guide teams and ensure high-quality code delivery.
Full 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 Consumer & Community Banking 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Core Skills - Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservice architecture, AWS, Terraform, Github, Copilot, Jenkins, Data Science, Graph SQL
- Databases: Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra) and Graph SQL.
- Containerization: Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes).
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- 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
- Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages
- Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Demonstrated expertise with monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch) and proven capability to lead high-performing teams—driving innovation, maintaining strong team health, and owning the end-to-end team performance cycle.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- AWS Certification (e.g., Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional, Developer – Associate).
- Exposure to cloud technologies