Java Kafka Streaming Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Marketing and Customer Insights Technology 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 breakdown technical problems
• Lead design and delivery of Kafka-based event streaming platforms/services in high-throughput (high TPS) environments; deep experience with event-driven architecture patterns and distributed systems reliability
• Code in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Springboot, Node.js ) with experience building microservices-based applications
• Code in front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular)
• Work with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services, WebSockets, and JSON
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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.
• 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proficiency in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Springboot, Node.js ) with experience building microservices-based applications for full-stack roles (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular)
• Experience leading design and delivery of Kafka-based event streaming platforms/services in high-throughput (high TPS) environments (deep experience with event-driven architecture patterns and distributed systems reliability)
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services, WebSockets and JSON
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL and NoSQL databases
• Proven ability to lead technical direction: drive architecture decisions, write/own design docs, align stakeholders, and deliver through ambiguity
• Experience improving operability (SLOs/SLAs, on-call readiness, monitoring, incident response, postmortems) for streaming systems
• 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

• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong soft skills, including presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and stakeholder management
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to drive broader impact by sharing and contributing best practices
• AWS certification
• Experience building and operating high-volume data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (Spark SQL, Structured Streaming) and/or Apache Flink (DataStream/Table API) in production.