Summary

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Strategic and Growth Office, you are the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By your nature, you are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. You thrive in working in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects – and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them.

Job Responsibilities

1. Identifies problems, proposes solutions, suggests what's best to focus on. Sees themselves as a problem solver. Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of specialty.
2. Use domain modelling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.
3. Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
4. Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns and keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.
5. Develop secure code so that our customers and ourselves are protected from malicious actors.
6. Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future, make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
7. Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

1. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
2. Experience working as a back-end software engineer (actively coding) and solid approach to writing unit level tests using mocking frameworks, as well as automating component, integration and end-to-end tests
3. Extensive experience with using a JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin, preferably Java 8+) and experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines
4. Understanding of security frameworks / standards , data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka, Spark, etc.), distributed tracing and monitoring (Zipkin, OpenTracing, Prometheus, ELK stack, Micrometer metrics, etc.) , experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
5. Professional experience working in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment
6. Understanding of distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), dependency injection frameworks (Spring / SpringBoot, Guice, etc.), microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, web technologies, relational databases

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

1. Ability to work in a collaborative environment and coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.
2. Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a geographically distributed team and focus on promptly addressing customer needs
3. Work within a diverse and inclusive team
4. Technically curious, versatile and solution oriented
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Development
• Java
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration