We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking technology team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for mission-critical applications, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering Agile, self-managing team practices and driving continuous improvement in processes, tools, and standards.
- Design and implement high-performance, resilient backend services using Java and cloud-native technologies, with a focus on share-nothing, multi-region architectures for fault tolerance, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Set and enforce standards for API design and development (REST/gRPC), including best practices for versioning, documentation, error handling, and service registry integration for dynamic service discovery in microservices environments.
- Promote the creation and adoption of custom frameworks and reusable components to accelerate development and maintain consistency.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others, and identify opportunities to automate or eliminate recurring issues to improve operational stability.
- Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials.
- Lead communities of practice to drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies.
- Manage project delivery, ensuring timelines, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction while identifying and mitigating technical risks.
- Represent the engineering team in strategic discussions, influencing technology decisions and roadmap planning.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification in Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Extensive experience in Java and object-oriented programming; advanced in one or more programming languages.
- Proven leadership in Kubernetes and cloud-native application development.
- Strong background in RESTful and Microservices API design, implementation, and best practices.
- Experience with service registry concepts and microservices orchestration.
- Demonstrated ability to design highly resilient, multi-region architectures.
- Experience architecting and promoting custom frameworks and reusable components.
- Proficiency in automation, CI/CD, and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Advanced understanding of Agile methodologies, application resiliency, and security.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile).
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience in senior leadership or engineering management roles.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
- UI development experience with modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or similar.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.
Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.
Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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