Lead Software Engineer Java React AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology, you play a vital role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's strategic goals.

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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Minimum of 8+ years of total experience, with significant experience in software architecture
• Ability to be hands-on with development tasks (70% of the time) while leading and mentoring a team of developers (30% of the time).
• Proficiency in Java for backend development.
• Experience with AWS services for cloud computing and deployment.
• Frontend development skills with React or Angular.
• Experience with relational databases(Postgres, Oracle, Aurora etc.)
• Strong understanding and experience in designing, developing, and deploying microservices.
• Ability to work closely with architects on both high-level and low-level design aspects.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, SQS, ECS/EKS , S3.
• Experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch for search and analytics capabilities.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Terraform
• Experience with No-SQL databases
• Knowledge in leveraging AI tools like Codeium and Copilot to enhance development efficiency and productivity.

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: JPMorgan-210648205

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-06T16:03:23