As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Markets - Post Trade 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. 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
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
- Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
- Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- 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 understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Advanced coding with Java 11 and advanced capabilities with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgresQL, and Mongo DB
- Experience with event-driven development, Kafka and messaging systems such as Java Messaging System (JMS)
- Strong experience developing applications built on microservices architecture while working across a globally distributed team
- Ability to communicate effectively across different organization levels for technical and non-technical audiences, peers, and leadership teams.
- Experience with AWS ecosystem and application migrations from on-premise and hybrid solutions to fully cloud-native applications
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
- Ability to contribute directly to coding, code reviews, and technical team delivery while partnering with management and stakeholders to ensure delivery is aligned with overall team objectives.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
- Advanced Java 11 coding experience
- Advanced experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
- Experience with event-driven development, Kafka, and JMS messaging systems
- Strong experience developing microservices applications
- Experience working across globally distributed teams
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences at different organizational levels
- Experience with the AWS ecosystem and migrations from on-premise or hybrid environments to cloud-native applications
- Experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience coaching engineers on safe and compliant AI-assisted engineering adoption
- Ability to contribute to coding, code reviews, and technical delivery while partnering with management and stakeholders
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and related IT systems
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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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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