Lead Software Engineer - Java

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Houston, TX

2h

About The Position

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 JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Equities organization, 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.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience and skillsets
• Hands-on expertise in Java application development
• Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency
• Strong experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services
• Advanced experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
• Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
• Proficient knowledge of cloud compute platforms, including AWS
• Expertise in full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
• Experience working in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity, supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues

Nice To Haves

• Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products
• Experience with Python development
• Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with AI assisted coding

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas/solutions
• Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
• Takes ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
• Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
• Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable
• Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
• Provide 3rd Level production support – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system

Benefits

• We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
• Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
• We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.
• These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.
• We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed