Lead Software Engineer

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Asset Wealth Management, you will play a crucial role as a key member of an agile team, responsible for designing and delivering innovative technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable.

Your responsibilities include transforming creative concepts into high-quality, interactive web interfaces using front-end technologies and animation techniques, while ensuring all solutions are optimized for SEO and prepared for analytics integration.

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 applied experience


* Kafka Expertise: Practical experience with Kafka, Avro schema design, schema registry, topic partitioning, exception handling, KStreams, and KSQL.


* Microservices Development: Advanced skills in designing and implementing microservices in Java, utilizing domain-driven design and the Spring Boot framework, deployed on public or private cloud environments.


* Cloud Infrastructure: Proficiency in AWS services such as ECS, Aurora Postgres, S3, and Elasticache.


* Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform for cloud resource provisioning and management.


* Database Design: Familiarity with Hibernate and Spring JPA, along with strong knowledge of database design best practices to build scalable, global services.


* API Design: Participate in API design sessions and contribute to the selection of design patterns.

Experience building scalable REST APIs and working knowledge of GraphQL.


* Technical Documentation: Document service APIs using Swagger or similar tools.


* Frontend Development: Ability to build lightweight user interfaces using Angular or React.


* Observability & Security: Implement logging (Splunk), auditability, security, and monitoring (Dynatrace) features.


* Industry Knowledge: In-dept...