Lead Software Engineer - Java

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Houston, TX

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 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
Expertise in Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17
Advanced hands-on coding experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring JPA/Hibernate, and REST based services
Strong 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
Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs, analyze system performance using tools such as Dynatrace
Experience with Databases – relational and No-SQL (Sybase, Oracle, Mongo DB)
Expertise with Messaging Middleware platforms (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS
Proven experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, and Maven
Demonstrated experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
Ability to work in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity and supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues

Nice To Haves

Experience of working in financial services and understanding of equity derivative products
Hands-on coding experience with Python
Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3
In-depth knowledge of AWS Public Cloud products and solutions (EC2, S3, Lambda, EFS)
Cloud certification – AWS or Kubernetes

Responsibilities

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, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
Takes full 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, while ensuring they are robust and supportable
Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
Provides 3rd Level production support to analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system
Mentors junior Java developers and conduct code and design reviews

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.
Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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