Lead Software Engineer – Java, React, Oracle, AWS

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Software Engineering Job 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 Commercial and Investment Bank – Securities Lending, 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 developing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

• 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
• Creating user interfaces and interactive features for web applications using languages and frameworks.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• 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
• Experience in software development of Micro services with Java, Spring Boot, Python
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies
• Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL databases such as Oracle.
• Knowledge of Restful Web Services, Web Sockets/JSON
• Agile Development experience with SCRUM or similar methodologies
• Advanced Proficiency in front-end languages and libraries (e.C#, React) and back-end languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Spring, Python etc.) and practical cloud native experience.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Experience with build and Integration Tools, including knowledge of JIRA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, Git Hub and Bit Bucket is required.

• Experience working across the entire Software Development Life Cycle in a large corporate environment.
• Completed AWS Developer or Solution Architect Certification
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Observability and production management tools (ex. Splunk / Dynatrace / Grafana)
• A keen interest in staying ahead of modern development trends and experimenting with emerging technologies such as AI and Machine Learning.

JPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and…