Lead Software Engineer

Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Deposits platform, 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 firms 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
• 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
• 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 of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience using Java, spring based technologies and event based microservices in AWS / Cloud environment
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience with micro services/RESTful API, relational/NoSQL databases, data modeling and data ingestion frameworks
• Hands-on experience with data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka, Spark, etc.)
• Understanding of dependency injection frameworks (Spring / Spring Boot, etc.)
• Be an active developer and contributor to the teams delivery. Take the lead on solving and implementing difficult technology challenges and drive our team to successful delivery
• Understanding of containers (Dockers, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)
• Expand unit testing automation suite capabilities by integrating tests into CI/CD pipeline; ensuring 100% documentation & unit testing of all code delivered

• Hands-on development experience working with core enterprise-based Java technologies

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Cloud certification. Practical cloud native experience
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Lead and mentor engineers. Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to integrate performance testing and automation into the software development lifecycle
• Design and implement robust automation frameworks and tools to support continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement changes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies in performance testing and automation