Chase · 2 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer - Java / AWS
880 Powder Mill Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19803, 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. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and deliver technology products, engage with development teams, and implement critical technology solutions across various business functions.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Engage with development team throughout agile sprints to develop software for reliability and scale, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes
Identify application patterns and analytics in support of better service level objectives. Design automated software and product upgrades, change management, and release management solutions
Deep Experience in Operating Services in Public Cloud, Strong grasp of SRE principles; SLIs/ SLOs, error budgets, incident management, observability, and resilience patterns. Hands-on with observability and incident tooling, Proficiency with CI/CD and deployment strategies
Perform year-over-year analysis of production issues (e.g., P1–P3) to identify top failure modes, recurrence patterns, and control gaps
Drive prioritized remediation programs across change/configuration, capacity/performance, dependency resilience, and code quality
Troubleshoot priority and escalation incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems and ensure permanent closure of incidents and subsequent problem tasks
Establish comprehensive automated functional testing with dependable regression suites integrated into CI/CD to gate releases; improve reliability and speed through robust test data and include non-functional checks (performance, resilience, accessibility) in pre‑prod and readiness reviews
Implement demand forecasting, load testing, and performance engineering in pre-prod; validate scale assumptions before peak events
Run game days and chaos experiments to validate failover, degraded-mode operation, and dependency timeouts
Embed shift‑left quality and partner with Product to mature testing practices: co‑define clear acceptance criteria and Definition of Ready/Done, align coverage to critical user journeys, and track quality KPIs (defect escape rate, automated coverage on key paths, change failure rate) tied to service objectives and release readiness
Cloud platform and automation
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Experience in AWS-based API development using Java, with proficiency in RESTful API development and related tools such as Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI
Proficient in utilizing AWS services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EC2, IAM, Event Bridge) to design and deploy API-driven solutions, with a focus on cost-efficiency, scalability, and performance
Skilled in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc
Experience with AWS cloud monitoring tools like Datadog and CloudWatch
An advanced understanding of site reliability culture and principles and a track record of demonstrating how to implement site reliability within an application or platform and usage of key SRE concepts such as SLOs and Error Budgets
Advanced knowledge and experience in observability capabilities across applications (metrics, tracing, SLOs), alerting, telemetry collection and ability to design critical and golden signal monitoring and dashboards
Solid understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security, with experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment using modern programming and database querying languages
Preferred
Experience instituting production readiness standards and error-budget policies across multiple product teams
Background in performance engineering and capacity planning for high-traffic, customer-facing systems
Thorough understanding of Automated Functional Testing / Regression Testing and integration of the same in TrueCD
Cloud / SRE certifications
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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