Lead Software Engineer - Reference Data Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Chicago, IL

15h•$137,750 - $185,000

About The Position

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector's Reference Data Engineering, 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. This group powers one of the teams' most critical data-driven capabilities through a modern data mesh architecture delivering curated, domain-driven data products in real-time across the firm. Operating at enterprise scale across AWS, Databricks, and on-premises, Reference Data Integration (RDI) manages multi-tenant data delivery with managed-service enablement. The platform uses event-driven streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming) for high-performance real-time data delivery and is evolving AI/ML-driven data quality and reconciliation capabilities. Join our engineering team to architect intelligent, self-healing data platforms driving the next generation of financial infrastructure.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
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.
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Expert-level Java proficiency. Deep knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, and Spring Security (JWT/OAuth2), Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and AWS Services in public cloud infrastructure, with experience building cloud-native or cloud-ready applications using AWS
Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and design patterns
Production-level experience with AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, Kinesis. Hands-on with databases: NoSQL (MongoDB), columnar/analytics (Snowflake, Databricks), relational SQL
Experience with version control (Git/Bitbucket), CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) so you can be proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile methodologies, and continuous delivery
Proficiency in Java/J2EE and REST APIs. Experience building event-driven Microservices and Kafka (Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming) and its event-driven architecture and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing with proficiency in GIT/Bitbucket, JIRA, Maven
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight. Clear articulation of technical concepts in a self-motivated role that requires high ownership of work quality and delivery

Nice To Haves

Python with data engineering experience including exposure to Databricks and a a background in data infrastructure or reference data platforms
Experience in Platform or Product Development and contribution to open-source projects or public technical content
AWS Certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or higher)
Experience with Spring Cloud (Netflix OSS stack: Eureka, Zuul, Hystrix)
Experience building or maintaining high-scale, real-time data systems. Familiarity with data product delivery and data mesh patterns
Experience in multi-region or disaster recovery scenarios
Familiarity with managed service architecture patterns

Responsibilities

Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
Develops secure and 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.
Executes creative software solutions through innovative system design and development. Approaches complex data infrastructure challenges with ability to think beyond conventional approaches
Develops secure, high-quality production code. Reviews and debugs code written by others. Maintains and elevates engineering standards
Designs and develops Java/Spring Boot microservices for real-time data product delivery and platform capabilities
Owns assigned features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
Optimizes performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of microservices and data pipelines while writing comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) to ensure platform reliability and data integrity
Participates in design and code reviews. Proactively identifies and remediates technical debt and helps with production support and incident response.
Contributes to team knowledge sharing: documentation, runbooks, tech talks