Join a team where you can shape how modern banking software is built and operated at scale. You will help deliver customer-facing ATM capabilities with strong engineering rigor, thoughtful use of AI-assisted development, and a focus on reliability and security. If you enjoy building cloud-native services and coaching other engineers while staying hands-on, you will find meaningful impact and growth here.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Consumer & Community Banking, you will design, build, and operate software that powers critical ATM channel experiences. You will lead by example through hands-on development, strengthen engineering practices across the team, and partner with stakeholders to ensure work is delivered with appropriate risk management, controls, and compliance built in.
Job responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade services supporting the ATM Channel Product
- Develop and maintain Java-based services with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Design, build, and govern APIs (REST and/or event-driven), including documentation, versioning, and lifecycle management
- Build data solutions using relational and/or NoSQL databases, applying sound schema design and performance optimization techniques
- Implement cloud-native patterns including microservices, containers, orchestration, observability, and automation
- Drive engineering best practices across development, testing, deployment, and production operations
- Apply AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality, safety, and security standards
- Provide hands-on technical guidance, troubleshooting support, and decision-making leadership across the team
- Perform thorough code reviews to ensure secure coding, test coverage, clean architecture, and maintainable implementations
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure disciplined delivery aligned with change management, auditability, and access control expectations
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience in professional software engineering, including hands-on backend development and production operations
- Advanced Java expertise and strong command of modern backend engineering practices, and experience working on Java Frameworks (Spring boot, Microservices, API Development, and Design Patterns)
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, securing, and operating APIs, including versioning and performance considerations
- Solid experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including schema design, indexing, transactions, and performance tuning
- Proven experience delivering cloud-native systems using containers, orchestration, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and observability
- Strong knowledge of secure software development practices and operational readiness for production services and end to end testing of application
- Strong communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to both engineering and non-engineering partners
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills including structured thinking, root-cause analysis, and pragmatic decision-making
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive work to completion with consistent follow-through
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience building high-availability, low-latency services for high-traffic customer channels
- Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems design patterns
- Experience building automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, and performance testing)
- Experience coaching engineers on incident response, on-call practices, and operational excellence
- Experience applying AI-assisted tools to improve developer productivity while maintaining strong controls and quality practices
