Lead Software Engineer - Backend Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Organization Description

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 Consumer & Community Banking Digital Utilities 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.

Our Team is focused on making Customer account data (examples: Credit Card, Investments, Deposit, Lending) available for chase.com and mobile experiences. Our team works on integrating with data-producers to ingest, reconcile and deliver utility-grade capabilities for data access. Our solutions are used to provide site-resilience and drive unique and novel Customer experiences. We deliver mission critical applications that run into thousands of TPS and provide low-latency, always-available capability for millions of Customers.

Job 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
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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
• Demonstrates knowledge of architecture and design across all systems
• Exhibits in multiple modern programming languages
• Utilizes in modern SDLC practices such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment
• Applies of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
• Possesses understanding of financial control and budget management
• Collaborates to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Extensive core Java development experience with Spring or similar framework
• Expert understanding of data structures, algorithms & multi-threaded programming
• Experience working on high throughput mission critical high-performance platforms
• Ability to influence architecture and design across distributed systems
• Experience in designing and building reusable services
• Proven track record in application delivery and stakeholder management
• Experience with Cloud Foundry, AWS and Kubernaties
• Stack: Java, Spring, AWS, Kubernaties, Kafka, MQ, Cassandra, Oracle, Spark, Control-M, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, PowerMock, JMeter, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Jenkins and etc.

Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Distributed Platforms (Kubernaties, AWS EMR ), Java Spark and Control-M
• Experience developing open-source libraries or internal libraries that are integrated into applications by other internal teams
• Behavior Driven Development using Cucumber and Continual Integration with  Jenkins & Spinnaker
• Experience with Cloud native software deployment ideally AWS & PCF
• Experience with message bus technologies such as Kafka or MQ
• Experience with database technologies (e.g. Cassandra, Oracle, DynamoDB)
• Exceptional client relationship skills including the ability to discover true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical approaches, drive efforts to meet committed timelines with optimal solutions.

ABOUT US

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.  We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.