Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking in Prime and Equities organization, 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

• 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


• 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


• Demonstrated and strong hands on Java/J2EE Enterprise Web Development; developing in all tiers (middleware, integration and database) of the application and proven experience with design patterns


• Experience in  Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, EC2) is must


• Experience in AWS cloud monitoring tools like Datadog, Cloud watch, Lambda is needed 


• Deep hands-on experience with Spring framework, Object Oriented methodology of design and development, and Spring Batch framework


• Experience with databases like Oracle, caching and performance tuning, Web Services SOA experience (SOAP as well as Restful with JSON formats), with Messaging (Kafka)


• Hands on with development and test automation tools/frameworks (e.g. BDD and Cucumber)


• Experience in writing Stored Procedures, functions, SQL queries and backend programming using NoSQL database such as Cassandra and with testing frameworks like JUnit and mocking techniques


• Hands on with development and test automation tools/frameworks (e.g. BDD and Cucumber)


• Ability to plan, prioritize and follow through on their work and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment, while also clearly articulating both technical and non-technical issues with stake holders & partners like Dev Ops, Architects, QA testers & Product Owners

• Experience in Micro services, Spring boot is preferred


• Experience in financial domain is preferred


• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security


• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability