Senior Lead Software Engineer - API Designer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Jersey City, NJ

13h

About The Position

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial and Investment Banking team, you will play a key role in an agile team dedicated to building, enhancing, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact through your contributions.

Requirements

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with 5+ years of applied experience
Strong understanding of REST, GRPC, and/or event-driven API paradigms
Proficiency with API specification tools (OpenAPI/Swagger, RAML, AsyncAPI, Postman, etc.)
Experience with API gateways, management platforms, and developer portals
Excellent communication and documentation skills
Familiarity with security best practices (OAuth2, JWT, API keys, etc.)
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS (EKS)
Knowledge of Micro Services & Domain Driven architecture
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated API testing
Contributions to open-source API tools or standards

Responsibilities

API Design: Design RESTful, GRPC, and/or event-driven APIs using best practices and industry standards (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger, AsyncAPI).
Documentation: Create and maintain clear, comprehensive API documentation and usage guides.
Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and Architect teams to gather requirements and translate them into API specifications.
Standards & Governance: Define and enforce API design standards, style guides, and governance processes.
Prototyping: Build API prototypes and mock servers to validate designs and facilitate early feedback.
Developer Experience: Advocate for and implement features that improve the developer experience, such as versioning, error handling, and discoverability.
Lifecycle Management: Support the full API lifecycle, including versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA and development teams to ensure APIs are well-tested and meet performance, security, and reliability standards.
Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with API trends, tools, and technologies, and drive continuous improvement in API design practices.

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.

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