Lead Software Engineer - Java Full Stack, React

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise-scale web applications and backend services supporting Payments Technology capabilities.

• Deliver modern frontend solutions using React, micro frontend architecture, reusable components, and responsive user interface patterns.

• Build and maintain scalable Java / Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL, and distributed application components.

• 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.

• Produce secure, high-quality production code that meets functional, non-functional, resiliency, performance, and maintainability requirements.

• Contribute to architecture and design artifacts for complex application features, integrations, and platform capabilities.

• Apply engineering best practices across software design, coding standards, test automation, CI/CD, observability, and secure development.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across frontend, backend, integration, cloud, and production environments.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied software engineering experience.

• Hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale, production-grade applications in complex technology environments.

• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and distributed systems.

• Strong frontend engineering experience with React, JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frontend tooling such as Vite, Webpack, or equivalent.