Lead Software Engineer - API Platform

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you are an integral part of API Marketplace product that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading API platform product 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.

You will create next generation of API Platform for Chase and you will lead and grow various aspects of API Platform and provide technical guidance and direction to advance our API product strategy so that our partner developers, internal developers, and business decision-makers can innovate and ship products for our customers faster.  

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate the remediation of recurring issues to improve the overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Facilitate API platform modernization using technologies related to cloud-based microservice applications, event-based communication, and data at the edge with eventual consistency.
• Build scalable and resilient API platforms, services, and tooling to support all stages of the API lifecycle.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in the API Marketplace.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of API platforms, tools, and practices of the API Development Life Cycle.
• Lead 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.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more modern programming languages in addition to Java (knowledge of other JVM languages such as Kotlin or Scala is a plus).
• Hands-on experience developing microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience in the development/support of REST API interfaces (SpringBoot, gRPC, Swagger, Flask), SQL, and NoSQL technologies.
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Practical cloud-native experience.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience with products related to APIs, SDKs, first-party and third-party Developer Platforms, and IAM (Identity and Access Management).
• Experience in API Management platforms, API Gateways, API Catalog, and a deep understanding of API technologies – REST, GraphQL, gRPC.
• Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud strategy and cloud computing technologies, including Cloud Foundry and AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• Experience building distributed systems with microservices.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL (Cassandra preferred).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

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

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.