JPMorganChase · 2 days ago
Lead Software Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$133K/yr - $185K/yr
5+ years expJPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be a key technical contributor in an agile team, responsible for implementing critical technology solutions and enhancing market-leading technology products.
FinanceBankingAsset ManagementFinancial Services
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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Experience in the Software Development Life Cycle, including hands-on development experience
Hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, REST Services, Spring boot and Spring and strong experience writing SQL queries
Hands-on experience in public cloud - AWS and Kafka
Strong coding skills in Java, with proficiency in frameworks and libraries, expertise in Spring Boot for building microservices
Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs for enterprise-scale applications
Expertise in Object-Oriented Design: Ability to design software systems using object-oriented principles and practices
Experience in building Decoupled Systems: Proficiency in using design patterns and technologies to decouple system components, enhancing flexibility and maintainability
Strong knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools
Proficiency in unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito for ensuring code quality
Knowledge of messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka
Preferred
Experience in the financial services industry
Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and RDS for deploying and managing applications
Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization technologies
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Associate Developer
Benefits
Comprehensive health care coverage
On-site health and wellness centers
A retirement savings plan
Backup childcare
Tuition reimbursement
Mental health support
Financial coaching
Company
JPMorganChase
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1998-02-01IPO
Leadership Team
Allison Beer
CEO of Card Services and Connected Commerce
Dan Mendelson
CEO, Morgan Health
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