Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Houston, TX

13h

About The Position

As a Fullstack-AWS Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment 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.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
Overall 8+ years of experience in the industry leading and implementing technical solutions to solve complex business problems
Expertise in Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA (OR) Python and relevant microservices framework.
Expertise in JavaScript, Typescript, React and popular test framework for UI
Proficiency in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Test Driven Development (TTD), with hands-on experience in test automation frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Playwright and Cucumber.
Experience building cloud native or cloud ready applications using AWS
Strong understanding of security standards such as OAuth, TLS, and Kerberos.
Knowledge of Domain Driven Design, microservices patterns, and modern architectures.
Familiarity with log/metric collection and monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk.
Exposure to NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra etc.
Hands-on experience with building CI/CD pipelines using Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Fortify.

Nice To Haves

AI integration: Familiarity with MCP servers and augmenting developer workflows with LLM tooling.
Performance engineering: Proven impact reducing bundle sizes, build times, and improving runtime performance.
Open-source contributions to developer tooling or frontend frameworks.
Design systems: Experience building scalable component libraries with Storybook

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and maintain frontend platform infrastructure, developer tooling, and high-performance build systems (80% hands-on coding).
Establish and uphold architectural standards via exemplary code, rigorous reviews, and technical mentorship.
Design and optimize Nx-based monorepos, Rspack/Vite pipelines, and Module Federation–based micro-frontends.
Implement comprehensive testing strategies and integrate them into CI/CD.
Create CLI tooling, scaffolding, and automation to standardize and accelerate delivery.
Champion developer experience practices: CSS Modules, linting/formatting, and documentation standards.
Navigate internal ecosystems, partnering across teams to unblock delivery and improve platform adoption.
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

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.
Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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