Summary

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 Corporate and Investment Banking - Liquidity and Account Solutions 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.

Job responsibilities

1. 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
2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
3. Works closely with Solution & Technical Architects, Senior Engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development. 
4. Manages daily activities of the development team with scrum & agile approach and instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
5. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
6. 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
7. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
8. Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

1. Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
2. Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
3. Advanced in Java 17+ with Spring Boot with deep understanding of architectural concepts, issues and trends.
4. Experience of creating thread-safe concurrent code in Java or another JVM based language
5. Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)
6. Experience with Docker and running Production workloads on Kubernetes
7. Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Cassandra)
8. Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
9. Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
10. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
11. Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
12. In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

1. Ability to work independently and in a team & Proficient at researching innovative solutions for challenging technical problems.
2. Willingness to research, pick up and learn new technologies, frameworks and tools.
3. Looking for someone who brings a lot of positive energy.
4. Experience with caching technologies, e.g. Redis
5. Hands on experience with C++, Rust or Golang
6. Knowledge of data serialisation formats (e.g. Google Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro and Parquet)
7. Experience with gRPC
8. Certified Kubernetes knowledge (e.g. CKAD)
9. Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)

Skills

• AWS
• C++
• Communications Skills
• Database Management
• Development
• Java
• Leadership
• Rust
• Software Engineering
• SQL