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Lead Software Engineer - Java/AWS

260312-South Florida Region Admin
Full-time
On-site
Houston, Texas, United States
$147,250 - $215,000 USD yearly
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 Digital Investment Banking 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


 



  • 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

  • Write test cases, leverage unit and integration testing, develop functionality and automation​

  • Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

  • 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

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

  • Advanced in Java and NodeJS programming languages

  • Prior experience with AWS components such as ElastiCache, S3, EC2, Lambda, Aurora/RDS, etc

  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security

  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

  • Practical cloud native experience



Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills


  • Experience with developing frameworks to increase developer and release velocity, improve code health and technical standards

  • Software testing disciplines such as automated testing and Test Driven Development/Behavior Driven Development

  • Experience working with containers including Kubernetes and Docker

  • Implementation knowledge of managing asynchronous communication using Kafka or other JMS broker solution