Lead Software Engineer

Organization Description

Join our Consumer & Community Banking division at JPMorgan Chase, where we lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth, offering top-tier digital solutions and customer satisfaction. As a part of one of the oldest and most innovative financial institutions, you'll contribute to providing cutting-edge financial services to millions of consumers and businesses globally. We value diversity and inclusion, ensuring a supportive environment for all employees, and offer reasonable accommodations for various needs. Be part of a team where your talents promote our success in investment banking, consumer banking, and more.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the CONSUMER & COMMUNITY BANKING Deposits platform, 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 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience with micro services/RESTful API, relational/NoSQL databases, data modeling and data ingestion frameworks
• Hands-on experience with data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka, Spark, etc.)
• Understanding of dependency injection frameworks (Spring / Spring Boot, etc.)
• Understanding of containers (Dockers, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Cloud certification 
• Practical cloud native experience
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of performance and automation engineers.
• Develop and implement strategies for performance testing and automation to improve software quality and delivery efficiency.
• Define and drive the adoption of best practices in performance testing and automation across the organization.