JPMorganChase · 9 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer - Java
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expJPMorganChase is one of the oldest financial institutions, offering innovative financial solutions to a wide range of clients. The Lead Software Engineer will be a core technical contributor responsible for enhancing, building, and delivering technology products, ensuring they meet business objectives while collaborating with various teams.
Asset ManagementBankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
Works directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas/solutions
Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
Takes ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
Works closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable
Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
Provide 3rd Level production support – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience and skillsets
Hands-on expertise in Java application development
Excellent understanding of Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency
Strong experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services
Advanced experience with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
Proficient knowledge of cloud compute platforms, including AWS
Expertise in full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven
Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
Experience working in a 3rd Level advanced support capacity, supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues
Preferred
Experience of working in financial services / Understanding of equity derivative products
Experience with Python development
Experience with UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3
Experience with AI assisted coding
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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