Java, AWS and Kafka Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Wilmington, DE

About The Position

As an Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking's Card Cobrand 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.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Expert-level proficiency in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot/Spring Framework), delivering high-quality, scalable services and enforcing best practices (code quality, dependency management, testability, secure coding).
Strong hands-on experience building event-driven architectures using Kafka/Kafka Streams, including event modeling, partitioning strategy, ordering/consistency tradeoffs, consumer group design, schema evolution, and resilient processing patterns.
Deep practical experience with messaging technologies such as Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, and IBM MQ, including design for reliability (DLQs, retries/backoff, idempotency, deduplication, at-least-once delivery handling).
Extensive experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and microservices, applying modern patterns (service decomposition, circuit breakers/timeouts, bulkheads, saga/outbox patterns where applicable, backward-compatible versioning).
Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Step Functions, and VPC, with strong understanding of security, networking, HA/DR, and cost/performance optimization.
Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, transaction/consistency considerations.
Practical experience delivering cloud infrastructure using Terraform, including reusable modules, environment promotion strategies, and CI/CD integration for repeatable deployments.
Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, etc.)
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
AWS Certified Developer – Associate and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (or equivalent), demonstrating validated expertise in building and deploying solutions on AWS.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Cloud Certifications or Java Certifications
Experience mentoring junior talent

Responsibilities

Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
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
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Translate business objectives into clear technical plans, manage trade-offs, align cross-functional teams, and deliver complex initiatives on time with predictable outcomes.
Apply modern engineering best practices, including test automation, CI/CD, rigorous code reviews, dependency and vulnerability management, and adherence to production readiness standards.