Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS/Cloud

Job 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 JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking & consumer banking deposits team, you play a crucial role in improving, developing, and delivering reliable, top-tier technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

As a key technical contributor, your responsibilities include promoting vital technology solutions across numerous technical domains within various business functions, all in support of the firm's business goals.

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.
• Mentor junior engineers on patterns and best practices.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience using Java.
• 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.).
• Understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and related tools.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Cloud certification.
• Practical cloud native experience.
• Experience using Python.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.

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.

For those in eligible roles, discretionary incentive compensation which may be 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.

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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.