Lead Software Engineer - Java / Cloud Developer

JPMorgan Chase - Plano, TX

Full-time - Senior

Plano, TX

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About the position

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking sector, you will play a crucial role in an agile team focused on enhancing and delivering market-leading technology products. This position requires a passion for solving business problems through innovative engineering practices and a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to achieve common goals and ensure the stability and scalability of software applications.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Develop secure high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials.
• Engage with development teams throughout the incident lifecycle to ensure lessons learned are translated into automated responses.
• Design best-in-class monitoring frameworks for end-to-end flow monitoring and noiseless alerting.
• Utilize programming languages and tools such as JavaScript, Java, HTML/CSS, TypeScript, SQL, Python, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, particularly Java & J2EE stack including Spring Framework and web services.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Experience mentoring and grooming developers.
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.
• 5+ years of extensive high-level enterprise architecture and software design experience.
• 2+ years of experience with public cloud services (Azure/GCP/AWS/private cloud) and hands-on experience with services like S3, DynamoDB, EKS, SQS, MSK, KMS, ALB.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps best practices, and BDD test automation frameworks such as Cucumber and Karate.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with event-driven app architecture such as Kafka.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with running workloads on public cloud (AWS preferred).
• Open source contribution experience.
• Experience developing frameworks.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage
• On-site health and wellness centers
• Retirement savings plan
• Backup childcare
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mental health support
• Financial coaching