Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack React/Java - Risk Frameworks
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Full-timeLeadAug 2026 · checked today
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Risk Technology space, you'll work in an agile team building production software across the full stack, with a frontend focus. You own code quality, contribute to technical direction, and work across React frontends and Java/Spring Boot services.
Job Responsibilities
- Write, review, and debug secure production code across frontend and backend services.
- Design and build cloud-native, microservices-based applications with zero-downtime releases.
- Apply domain modeling to structure software for clarity, testability, and long-term maintainability.
- Identify recurring failure patterns and eliminate or automate their remediation.
- Lead communities of practice to share new techniques and raise engineering standards across the org.
- Design for resilience: no single points of failure, scalable patterns, optimised data access.
- Contribute to a team culture where different perspectives improve the work.
- Work with stakeholders and clients to gather, challenge, and refine requirements before they become code.
Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities
- Significant hands-on software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React.
- Backend experience with Java and Spring Boot.
- Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS, and a preprocessor such as Sass.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- Comfortable working in agile delivery (Scrum or Kanban).
- Able to solve complex design and functionality problems independently.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent), RESTful APIs, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience designing and building applications with SQL and NoSQL databases.
Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities
- Experience mentoring engineers and presenting technical work to stakeholders.
- Background in financial services or banking.
- AWS certification or equivalent cloud experience.
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