Lead Software Engineer - Middleware

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer Banking, 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.

• 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
• 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 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

• 5+ years of middleware software development experience
• Deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production services
• Develop software with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language
• Implement automation and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices
• Execute across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Apply agile engineering practices, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security‑focused development
• Demonstrate proficiency in a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
• Apply in-depth knowledge of financial services and common enterprise IT systems
• Deliver solutions using practical cloud‑native engineering experience
• Exposure to AWS with Terraform

• Server‑side programming experience (Java; Java plus C/C#/Python acceptable)
• Experience designing and developing high‑throughput, low‑latency solutions for mission‑critical 24/7 applications
• Spring experience (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Kafka)
• Experience distributing technologies and frameworks (Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop)
• Experience writing performant SQL and stored procedures (Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server/Cockroach DB)
• Experience using messaging technologies (Kafka, Web Sphere MQ/JMS, RabbitMQ)
• Experience building for testability and implement test automation (JUnit/Mockito, Cucumber/Gherkin), and use Git for source control