Lead Software Engineer

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 Corporate Technology, 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


* 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, including hands-on experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers


* Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability with demonstrated expertise across the full Software Development Life Cycle


* Expert-level proficiency in Java ecosystem including Spring Framework, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, and building RESTful microservices architectures.


* Practical experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.)


* Strong system design and architecture skills with proven ability to design scalable, resilient distributed systems and lead architectural design sessions


* Proficiency in relational databases and SQL, including query optimization, schema design, and database performance tuning (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, etc.)


* Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or AWS container services (ECS, EKS), including deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications


* Advanced experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native application development patterns


* Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security, with experience leading agile teams
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