Senior Lead Software Engineer - API Specialist

We are looking for a senior full-stack software engineer who has specialized mindset and experience in building/shaping out an API ecosystem to support the externalization of payments and financial capabilities via API.

The ecosystem at a high-level encompasses.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, Payments team, you will be responsible for building and shaping an API ecosystem to support the externalization of payments and financial capabilities via API.

The ecosystem at a high-level encompasses.

A client-facing portal that serves the various personas (prospects, clients, 3 rd party providers, aggregators, and partners) to self-explore/experiment our API capabilities at start, and subsequently leading up to all the self-service support for collaboration, onboarding and integration

An API Management Platform that manages and orchestrates ingress/egress proxy, identity/credential, authentication, authorization, cryptographic support, webhooks/notifications, metrics/analytics, and other API de-facto management capabilities

A suite of other applications that supports assisted API client onboarding/implementation, product configuration, billing, analytics, and client services
Besides the competency in the required technical skills, the API specialist should maintain awareness to keep up with industrial/market trends as well as the innovative mindset to help business partners shaping up API strategies and initiatives with the decent understanding of the current evolving API ecosystem.

Job Responsibilities:


* Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.


* Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.


* Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.


* Lead 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.


* Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.


* Quickly develop proof-of-concept solutions to prove feasibility of technological solutions.


* Proactively communicate with management and business stakeholders.


* Lead pilot projects to test new technologies and methodologies, evaluating their potential impact on the firm.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:


* Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 6+ years of applied experience.


* Seasoned experience and practical skills in API Security like OAuth 2.0, JWT, JWS,...