Lead Software Engineer - Java

About the position

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 Corporate Technology organization, 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.

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
• Works at code-level with Java, Spring, and AWS cloud environment
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Designs and develops strategies to provide end-to-end automation, architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices, proof of concepts, product design, and transition to operations
• 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

Requirements

• 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 hands-on coding experience in Java, Spring, Spring Boot based technologies within an AWS Cloud environment
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and 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.)
• Hands-on experience designing, developing and deploying software components on AWS using common compute and storage services such as ECS, Lambda, S3, and Aurora RDS
• Demonstrated ability in leading and managing software engineering teams, with a focus on individual growth and overall team performance.
• Expertise in working with REST APIs & Kafka Messages, ensuring efficient communication and integration between different systems
• Proven experience in providing end-user support with excellent problem-solving abilities
• Advanced knowledge of Unix, Windows, networking and scripting

Nice-to-haves

• Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer or Solutions Architect
• Proficient in using Terraform to deploy infrastructure-as-code to public cloud
• Experience in Linux scripting such as Bash, KSH and Front End Technologies
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems