Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS, React.js, Kafka

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 Consumer & Community Bank - Controls group, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

As a key technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve 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


* Leads and mentors a team up to ten junior software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.


* Drives automation initiatives for CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and operational processes.


* Optimizes application performance through tuning, monitoring, and proactive improvements.


* Engages in development expertise in Java, Spring Boot, React and Kafka messaging


* Collaborates with product owners, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.


* Designs and implements highly available and resilient systems, ensuring minimal downtime and robust disaster recovery.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


* Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


* Advanced in one or more programming language(s) such as Java and React


* Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods, and in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle


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


* Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)


* Advanced experience in domain-driven design, relational datab...