What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Java Backend Engineer - Lead Software Engineer position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management, 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.
With us, you can enhance your skills in Java, Sping Boot, Kafka and cloud architecture, while working in an inclusive and respectful team environment. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for creating technology solutions that interact across multiple applications within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. This role provides an opportunity to contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies. You will have the chance to proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and use these insights to promote improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
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, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years of applied experience
- Several years of professional working experience in Software Engineer and experience managing a small team
- Experience in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, JDBC, ETL, Kafka, IBM MQ, OpenAPI Doc, WSDL, JUnit, OIDC, JWT, Kubernetes, Splunk, Dynatrace
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in building REST API with Java, Oracle
- 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.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native & message bus experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in AWM Eco System
- Experience with IaC Terraform is a nice to have
- Experience in the Financial Service Industry is nice to have.
