Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer - Java Spring Kotlin

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

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