Chase · 23 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer – Backend (Java or Python)
1111 Polaris Pkwy, Columbus, OH, 43240, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expChase 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. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will provide direction and oversight for a team of engineers while developing secure, high-quality production code and influencing product design and technical operations.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks
Executes solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
Work in an Agile development environment with team members, including Product Owners
Develop secure, high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others, and drive decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and technical operations
Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing
Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the end-to-end development life cycle
Influence peers and project decision makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
5+ years of hands-on experience in Java, REST services, Spring and Spring Boot
2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS especially Terraform, EKS, ECS, and Lambda
2+ years of hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra)
Collaborate with various stakeholders and independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight
5+ years of demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operation stability
Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka
Above average database fundamentals – can write complex queries, understands how to organize data, and troubleshoot performance issues
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with strong customer focus
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
Strong Python experience, especially in the context of developing Agentic and Data solutions for large financial platforms
Experience with Agentic technologies (esp. LangChain), including design and implementation of production-grade solutions
Experience using Snowflake, Databricks or a similar PaaS offering
Familiarity with Graph databases
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
Chase
Chase provides broad range of financial services. It is a sub-organization of JP Morgan Chase.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Mike McDonnell
Managing Director, Head of Chase Travel Platform Product
Nicole Sanchez
Managing Director, Consumer Bank, GM and Product Executive, Growth Financial Products
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