Senior Lead Software Engineer - API Designer

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.

• API Design:
  Design RESTful, GRPC, and/or event-driven APIs using best practices and industry standards (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger, Async
  
  API).
• 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.

• 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, Async
  
  API, 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

• 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