Lead Software Engineer - Java Spring Kotlin

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Payments 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 JPMorgan's Access Mobile application.

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
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Leads engineers; set technical direction, coach, mentor, and conduct performance reviews
• Defines service boundaries, domain models, and platform guardrails.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong Java 17+ fundamentals. reactive programming, high-throughput services, or low-latency tuning
• Frameworks: Spring Boot 3+, Kotlin Multiplatform, Spring cloud for building resilient, observable services.
• API Design: RESTful best practices for mobile applications, OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Resilience patters: Timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting.
• Testing: Junit5, Mockito, TestContainers, and e2e automation.
• Kubernetes & Cloud platforms: Containerization, K8 fundamentals and security (secrets management, network policies and admission controls), Packaging and Deployments.
• CI/CD & developer productivity: Git strategies, code review rigor. Pipelines with quality gates, Feature flags, automated rollbacks and ephemeral/preview environments.
• Observability: Metrics, logs, and traces using standard telemetry tools. SLI/SLO design, error budgets, alerting, runbooks and incident management. Capacity planning, load testing, and chaos engineering.
• Certifications: CKAD or AWS cloud

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans