Lead Software Engineer - Backend/Java/Cloud

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking 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.

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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of Java experience

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Hands-on experience with Spring boot

• Proficiency in REST API

• Proficient in Kafka

• Advanced understanding of multi-region deployments

• Demonstrated proficiency in Artificial Intelligence(e.g., Co-Pilot, LLM)

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

• Cloud infostructure experience

• Event-driven architecture experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS experience

• Terraform experience

• Experience working with Blue-Green/Canary deployments

• Experience working with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)

• Experience with Cassandra

• Experience with performance optimization and trouble shooting