As a Lead Software Engineer - Data and Payments Business Observability Platform at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Data Analytics Payment 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 various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of an activity monitoring solution spanning a React UI and Java/Spring Boot backend services, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and a low-latency user experience with responsive APIs.
- Lead the design and evolution of event-driven microservices workflows, using Kafka for inter-service communication and reliable asynchronous processing (at-least-once delivery, retries, and DLQ patterns).
- Set and uphold engineering standards for the team’s Spring Boot services (API design, error handling, security, logging, performance tuning, versioning).
- Partner with product owners and stakeholders to translate monitoring/operational requirements into clear technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Design and maintain data access patterns across MySQL and Databricks, including connectivity, data retrieval strategies, and performance-efficient query patterns.
- Establish and evolve the deployment strategy (blue/green, canary, rollback, configuration management) aligned to engineering and operational needs on AWS.
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, including automated builds, tests, quality gates, release orchestration, and environment promotions.
- Design, build, and maintain the React-based UI, including performant, data-heavy grid experiences using AG Grid, state management, and frontend quality controls.
- Ensure production readiness through observability (metrics, logs, tracing), alerting, incident response runbooks, and proactive problem management.
- Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns.
- Apply knowledge of SDLC toolchains, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- In addition, 2+ years in a technical lead / lead engineer role driving design and delivery with cross-functional partners and being an highly collaborative team player with strong ownership/accountability and a high-energy delivery mindset (bias for action, urgency, excellence)
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Boot and strong working proficiency in Python for automation, data access utilities, and developer productivity tooling
- Proven experience designing and operating Kafka-based systems (topics/partitions, consumer groups, ordering, delivery semantics, retries/DLQs).
- Strong MySQL experience (schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions) and solid data modeling skills
- Familiarity with NoSQL datastores and search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch) and when to use them
- Working experience with Databricks and practical knowledge of connecting applications to Databricks to retrieve data securely and efficiently.
- 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
- Experience with AWS cloud platforms, including deploying and operating services in a cloud environment
- Hands-on React experience building UIs, including performance optimization for data-heavy screens and grids (e.g., AG Grid) and hands-on experience with Jenkins CI/CD and modern deployment practices (quality gates, automated testing, release management, rollback strategies)
- Deep AWS experience (cloud-native design, security/IAM concepts, networking basics, operational best practices)
- Experience with distributed tracing and observability stacks (e.g., OpenTelemetry patterns, log correlation, SLOs/SLIs)
- Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker and Kubernetes/ECS/EKS) and understanding of deployment tradeoffs
- Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation) and environment standardization practices
- Experience with security and compliance-minded engineering (secrets management, least privilege, secure SDLC, dependency vulnerability management)
- Domain experience in monitoring/telemetry/activity tracking platforms, audit/event pipelines, or operational analytics systems
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
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- 2+ years in a technical lead or lead engineer role
- Experience driving design and delivery with cross-functional partners
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java and Spring Boot
- Working proficiency in Python for automation, data access utilities, and developer tooling
- Experience designing and operating Kafka-based systems, including topics, partitions, consumer groups, delivery semantics, retries, and DLQs
- Strong MySQL experience, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and transactions
- Solid data modeling skills
- Familiarity with NoSQL datastores and search technologies such as Elasticsearch
- Experience with Databricks and securely connecting applications to retrieve data
- Experience leading the effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience with AWS cloud platforms and deploying and operating cloud services
- Hands-on React experience building and optimizing data-heavy interfaces and grids such as AG Grid
- Hands-on Jenkins CI/CD experience, including quality gates, automated testing, release management, and rollback strategies
- Deep AWS experience, including cloud-native design, security/IAM, networking, and operational best practices
- Experience with distributed tracing and observability stacks such as OpenTelemetry
- Containerization and orchestration experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience with security and compliance-minded engineering practices
- Domain experience with monitoring, telemetry, activity tracking, audit/event pipelines, or operational analytics systems
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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