Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Columbus, OH +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking division, responsible for enhancing, building, and delivering technology products. The role involves executing software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting, with a focus on secure, high-quality production code. Responsibilities include leading evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams, and driving awareness of new technologies through communities of practice. Requires 5+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud technologies, microservices, databases, and data streaming frameworks.

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
  • programming language(s)
  • distributed systems
  • cloud technologies
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • micro services
  • RESTful API
  • relational databases
  • NoSQL databases
  • data modeling
  • data ingestion frameworks
  • data streaming frameworks
  • messaging frameworks
  • MQ
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • dependency injection frameworks
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot
  • containers
  • Dockers
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security

Nice to have

  • Cloud certification
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • financial services industry IT systems
  • mentor engineers
  • performance testing
  • automation frameworks
  • continuous integration
  • continuous delivery
  • stakeholder collaboration
  • process improvements

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of applied experience
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
  • Experience with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
  • Experience with micro services/RESTful API, relational/NoSQL databases, data modeling and data ingestion frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with data streaming and messaging frameworks (MQ, Kafka, Spark, etc.)
  • Understanding of dependency injection frameworks (Spring / Spring Boot, etc.)
  • Understanding of containers (Dockers, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)
  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)