Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Lending Innovation product, 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.

• Lead a team of 6-8 engineers with a strong focus on Java and AWS technologies, ensuring effective collaboration and communication
• 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 for quality assurance.
• 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 partners 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on experience with Java, J2EE, Spring/Spring Boot, AWS services, including ECS, EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, Event Bridge, SNS and related technologies
• Strong familiarity with micro‑service designs and proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Deep technical knowledge of utilizing frameworks to deliver applications, and being able to dive deep into code implementations
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies
• Proficient in implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices to streamline software development processes, enhance collaboration, and ensure rapid delivery of high‑quality software products.
• Skilled in designing and developing applications with robust resiliency features, ensuring they can withstand and recover from failures, maintain availability, and provide consistent performance under varying conditions.
• Proficient in integrating security measures within the software development lifecycle, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and implementing best practices to safeguard applications against potential security threats and breaches.
• Experience with distributed streaming platform (Kafka)

• AWS Developer or Architect Certifications
• 6+ Years of Java development experience
• In‑depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Proficiency in databases like Oracle and Cassandra (or any other No
  
  SQL database)
• Expertise in using monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana and creating dashboards and alerts using these

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

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…