Lead Software Engineer - Java, Backend

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

Lead Software Engineer for Prime Finance Technology at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on enhancing, building, and delivering market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. The role involves executing creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with a focus on delivering secure, high-quality production code and improving operational stability. Responsibilities include leading evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams, driving awareness of new technologies, and contributing to team culture.

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 languages
  • automation
  • continuous delivery
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • cloud
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • mobile
  • financial services industry IT systems
  • cloud native

Nice to have

  • financial services
  • cash and securities processing
  • database technologies
  • DB2
  • Oracle
  • MongoDB
  • enterprise messaging
  • IBM MQ
  • Apache Kafka

What the JD emphasized

  • formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
  • 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, 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.)
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
  • Practical cloud native experience