Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS

The Data Analytics and Reporting Platform Technology Team in Payments is focused on providing innovative banking solutions that will support long term banking data storage, data processing, reporting and analytics. JP Morgan Chase processes trillions of dollars a day and settles some of the most critical global financial transactions.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology Software Engineering Group, your primary role will be to solve business problems through innovative and engineering practices. Your extensive knowledge and expertise will be applied across all aspects of the software development lifecycle. You will be expected to continuously collaborate with various stakeholders to maintain focus on shared objectives. Our culture encourages experimentation, continuous improvement, and learning in a collaborative and thought-provoking environment that values diversity of thought and creative solutions for our global customers. As passionate advocates for software solutions, we aim to deliver real and measurable business value. We appreciate creative innovators who are analytical thinkers with a bias for action in problem-solving. Utilizing design thinking and agile processes, we strive to align our solutions with the rapidly evolving market expectations. Joining our team means becoming part of a global network of inspiring and curious technologists dedicated to modern software delivery processes like continuous delivery, operational visibility, and automation. Besides your strong technical expertise, we expect you to voice out opportunities for improvement and engage in active learning to keep your skills updated.

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, 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
• Provides overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related disciplines
• Minimum 12 years of experience of applied experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Strong proficiency in Java8+, Spring Boot and other Spring modules like Spring MVC, Spring data JPA, JDBC Template.
• Expertise in building RESTful Web Services and microservices using Spring framework.
• Expertise with modern front-end technologies like Reactjs
• Experience with processing large volumes of near real-time data via messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka.
• Experience with persistence technologies such as relational and NoSQL platforms.
• Hands-on experience with any container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• 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.)
• Good knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems, preferably Payments Domain. Practical cloud native experience, AWS

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of Apache Flink to process real-time Kafka messages

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.