Lead Software Engineer - .NET / Java

Company: JPMorganChase
Location: Plano
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

Description 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 JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Digital and Platform Services / Security Services Tech 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 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 Leads and manages a high-performing software engineering team by setting clear goals, prioritizing work, allocating resources, and driving delivery while fostering collaboration and accountability 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 Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture 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 Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability Advanced in one or more programming language(s) and framework(s) (i.e., .NET/.NET Core, C#, Java, JavaScript, React, Angular, SQL/Oracle, Aurora MySQL, Postgres, Containers in Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.) Experience in object-oriented design skills and familiarity with advanced design patterns and practices Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods Experience with application development specifically full stack developing in building scalable and robust applications Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle Ability to work in large, collaborative and geographically distributed teams to achieve organizational goals Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.) In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (i.e., Kafka) Experience in AWS native technologies such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, EKS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Kinesis, Elastic Cache, Elastic Beanstalk, and Redis Experience with Splunk or Elastic Stack AWS Certifications and Agile practitioner are preferred

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