Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Digital & Platform Services group, 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 conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Promptly investigate and resolve issues, ensuring they do not resurface
• Continuously update technologies and patterns to keep systems current
• Design and build solutions that avoid single points of failure using scalable architectural patterns
• Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable solutions by leveraging modern architectural patterns that ensure zero‑downtime releases and optimize data performance
• 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

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of hands‑on experience in software engineering, including system design, application development, testing, and operational support.
• Proficiency in back‑end technologies (e.g., Java, Springboot, Node.js) with experience building microservices‑based applications; for full‑stack roles, proficiency also includes front‑end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular).
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services, Web Sockets, and JSON.
• Hands‑on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and an understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Understanding of application resiliency.
• 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.).

• Strong soft skills, including presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and stakeholder management.
• Strong problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to drive broader impact by sharing and contributing best practices.
• Experience in the banking domain.
• AWS certification.