Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Java​/React

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management Marketing Technology team, youare 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 conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

• Architect, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java (preferably Java 17+) and Spring Boot.
• 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
• Design RESTful and/or GraphQL interfaces; ensure robust authentication, authorization, and input validation.
• Own system performance, reliability, observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and security best practices.
• Write comprehensive automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) and drive CI/CD excellence.
• Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and promote engineering standards and clean architecture.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• 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
• 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

• 10+ Years of 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
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and at least one No
  
  SQL store (e.g., MongoDB).
• Knowledge of messaging/streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous processing.
• Solid testing practices: JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test; front-end testing with Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright.
• 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

• Develop high-quality, reusable React components (React 18+, Type Script) and front-end features
• Hands-on with AWS services: ECS/EKS or Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Cloud Front, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, Cloud Watch.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Cloud Formation).
• Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) a plus.
• Observability tooling:
  Open Telemetry, Grafana, Prometheus.