Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS, Kafka

About the position

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer Card Technology 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Participates in all agile meetings & rituals, including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
• Collaborates with multi-national agile development, support, and business teams to meet sprint objectives.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages - Core Modern Java -Version 11 or higher.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot framework, REST API design principles and best practices.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle, TDD and BDD, proficient writing unit, functional and integration automated tests.
• Experience using Jenkins, SonarQube, GIT, and Maven.
• Hands on experience with microservices architecture, and cloud-native application development, hands-on experience developing in AWS Cloud Platform (ECS, EKS, MSK, Lambda, S3, RDS Aurora).
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Experience writing streaming applications with Apache Kafka or similar messaging technology.
• Proficient in working with relational and NoSQL databases, experience with Containers (Docker) and Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platform (AWS ECS).
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Nice-to-haves

• Developer or Solutions Architect Level AWS Certification.
• Experience with any of these Observability tools: Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana.
• Experience with distributed databases like AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS Aurora, Cassandra, and Terraform infrastructure-as-code.
• Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages (JAVA, Python, SQL).