Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS

Jersey City, NJFull-timePosted Jul 27, 2026

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Connected Commerce technology offers and shopping  team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

  • Responsible for design and development of enterprise software applications.
  • Works with different stakeholders to review business requirements, architecture and design.  
  • Involves in coding, pair programming and code reviews.
  • Writes unit tests and software automation.
  • 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.
  • Supports Integration, UAT, and Performance testing.
  • Releases software on UAT and production; Participate in production support and application monitoring.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Experience in developing web-based applications using J2EE technology. 
  • Experience using Spring framework for building enterprise java applications.
  • Experience in developing Rest APIs.
  • Experience in using Oracle, Cassandra databases. 
  • Experience using BlazeMeter, Splunk, Dynatrace
  • Experience in manual testing using Postman/SoapUI.
  • Experience using Swagger tool to create the API specifications.
  • Experience in using Agile Scrum methodology for tracking the team work.
  • 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

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 
  • Exposure to AWS cloud technologies 
  • Experience in using Kafka for data streaming.
  • AWS or Cloud certifications 
  • Experience in Temporal Durable Execution technology
  • Experience writing automation tests using Cucumber framework
  • Cloud Foundry experience for developing and managing the web application.
  • Understands best practices for CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security

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