As a Lead Software Engineer, you will implement technology solutions, develop high-quality code, lead teams, and improve operational stability of software applications.
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 Asset and Wealth Management, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to improving, developing, and providing reliable, cutting-edge technology solutions that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains within various business functions to support the firm's strategic goals.
Job responsibilities
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
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 Asset and Wealth Management, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to improving, developing, and providing reliable, cutting-edge technology solutions that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains within various business functions to support the firm's strategic goals.
Job responsibilities
- 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
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, Python, Postgres, and SQL-related technologies.
- Hands on experience with AWS data technologies such as ECS, EMR, Glue, Step functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, Athena or SNS/SQS
- 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
- 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.)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Exposure to Data Lake, Data Warehouses, Data Mesh.
- Exposure to Databricks/Snowflake/Starburst, Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg or equivalent open table format through hands-on experience.
- Exposure to Terraform
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
Top Skills
Athena
AWS
DynamoDB
Ecs
Emr
Glue
Java
Lambda
Postgres
Python
Sns
Spring
Spring Boot
SQL
Sqs
Step Functions
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