Lead Software Engineer - Java, Kafka, AWS

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 JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Payments team, 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

• 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
• Lead triage and resolution of ad hoc, client-impacting issues
• 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 and internal teams to drive outcome-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Own the delivery of features across the development lifecycle both independently and with the team, including design, implementation, testing, and support
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Contribute to a 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, 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.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its technology systems
• Practical cloud-native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency with Java with Spring Boot, JavaScript, Kafka, and SQL and NoSQL databases
• Cloud certifications
• Experience mentoring junior talent