Lead Software Engineer - Backend Java Spring Boot, Kafka

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Software Engineer for Commercial & Investment Bank's Digital Post Trade Technology group, focusing on enhancing, building, and delivering technology products. Responsibilities include software solutions, design, development, troubleshooting, secure code production, vendor evaluation, and leading communities of practice. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and NoSQL databases, along with agile methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  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. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  4. 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
  5. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Skills

Required

  • software engineering concepts
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • Java on Spring Boot
  • Kafka
  • Cassandra, MongoDB, noSQL or Elastiq
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • cloud
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • mobile

Nice to have

  • AWS
  • Banking or Financial Industry background