Chase · 2 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer - API Platform
8181 Communications Pkwy Bldg F, Plano, TX, 75024, 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 within the Consumer & Community Banking - API Marketplace team, you will design, build, and enhance the API Platform while managing end-to-end problem-solving to drive significant business value through robust API offerings.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Brings discipline and creativity to solve business-critical problems, working with tech leads, product managers, and designers to bring outcomes to fruition
Identifies opportunities to remove technical debt and works to improve the quality of engineering deliverables
Communicates with stakeholders and is comfortable leading discussions with customers
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, technical operations, and processes, providing leadership grounded in technical expertise and effective communication
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Contributes to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Fosters a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Hands-on programming/application development experience utilizing Java, Spring Boot, REST, Microservices, RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Cloud Native, Agile, DevOps, and TDD
Recent experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, and utilization of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Prior experience in building or using API Platforms, with deep expertise in one or more areas of the end-to-end API stack, including cloud connectivity, network diagnosis, resilient systems, API security, authentication/authorization, API gateways, and API design spanning specification, standards, documentation, and governance
Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with considerable in-depth expertise in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
Practical cloud native experience
Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred
Deep understanding of networking and connectivity, including diagnosing network latencies, DNS behavior, cloud connectivity, and content delivery networks
Strong knowledge of API security, including transport-level security, payload encryption, signature algorithms, certificate management, OAuth, and DDoS protection
Experience designing highly scalable and resilient software systems on public cloud platforms such as AWS, utilizing various resiliency design principles and practices
Expertise in API developer specifications, standards, and documentation, with prior experience driving adoption of best practices at scale
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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