Lead Software Engineer - Java Cloud

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking – Payments Technology 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

• 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 remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• 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.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Quickly develop proof-of-concept solutions to prove feasibility of technological solutions.
• Proactively communicate with management and business stakeholders.
• Lead pilot projects to test new technologies and methodologies, evaluating their potential impact on the firm.
  
  

• 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.
• Full stack software engineer with excellent knowledge of Core Java, J2EE, Core Spring Framework, including sub-projects like Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Excellent programming and problem-solving skills with 100% hands-on development, support, bug fixes, and user management skills.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, DynamoDB, MongoDB.
• Experience implementing code quality tools like SONAR, Checkstyle, PMD, etc.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale.
• Experience working on complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability.
• Strong skills in automation and continuous delivery methods and exposure to UI frameworks such as Angular (version 4+) or ReactJS.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
  
  

• Practical cloud-native experience; AWS experience is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience in AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS KMS, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, AWS S3, SQS, Event Bridge, PostgreSQL is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform and Cloud Formation is an advantage.
• Java & Cloud certification is an advantage.