Lead Software Engineer - Java / AWS

JPMorgan Chase • Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Wealth Management, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your expertise and contributions will promote significant business impact, as you apply your deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands on experience with Java, J2EE, Spring/Spring boot, AWS services, including ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, Event Bridge, SNS and related technologies
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java/Python
• Experience with performance optimization and low-touch system design.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and multithreading in Java.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
• Basic experience with Terraform (or other IaC tools) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning etc.)

Nice To Haves

• Cloud certification like AWS Solution architect, Terraform certified
• Knowledge of the Wealth management and planning tool
• Expertise in using monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana and Dynatrace
• Python language knowledge

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code in Java, and review and debug code written by others to ensure adherence to best practices and performance standards.
• Design and implement complex algorithmic, focusing on optimizing execution and performance in a low-touch trading environment.
• Collaborate with the product team to translate complex functionality into efficient and scalable algorithms.
• Continuously improve and refactor existing codebases to enhance performance, implement comprehensive testing, and ensure the reliability of trading systems.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree