Lead Software Engineer
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Job description
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the CONSUMER & COMMUNITY BANKING, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
You will help shape modern, cloud-based technology that supports how our customers save, spend, and manage their money. You will join a collaborative engineering team where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and you can push the limits of what's possible. You will work on products that must be secure, resilient, and built for scale-delivering real impact for customers and the firm.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Deposits platform, you will be a core technical contributor on an agile team that builds and delivers secure, stable, and scalable software. You will drive solution design and engineering execution across multiple components and services, partner closely with peers and stakeholders, and improve the operational health of the platform through strong engineering practices., * Design and deliver secure, high-quality software solutions that solve complex problems and improve customer and business outcomes
- Develop production-grade code and perform thorough code reviews to improve maintainability, reliability, and team standards
- Influence architecture and engineering patterns for event-driven, microservices-based systems running in a cloud environment
- Lead technical evaluation sessions with internal teams and third parties to assess architectural fit, implementation quality, and risk
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the software stack, including participating in production support and incident resolution when needed
- Improve application stability by identifying recurring defects, conducting root-cause analysis, and driving preventative fixes
- Automate remediation and operational tasks where appropriate to reduce toil and improve service resilience
- Partner with product and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, well-defined technical solutions
- Contribute to engineering communities of practice by sharing knowledge, establishing reusable patterns, and promoting modern tools and techniques
- Promote an inclusive team culture grounded in respect, collaboration, and continuous learning
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience in software development
- Hands-on experience across system design, application development, testing, and operational support/stability
- Strong proficiency in Java and Spring-based frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot) in production environments
- Experience building event-driven systems and microservices in a cloud environment
- Experience with distributed systems and at least one major cloud platform (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure)
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling and performance considerations
- Hands-on experience with streaming/messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka); familiarity with Spark is a plus where relevant
- Experience with dependency injection and modular service design (e.g., using Spring)
- Experience containerizing and operating services using Docker and Kubernetes (including Helm)
- Experience improving automated testing and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Cloud certification and demonstrated experience building and operating cloud-native services
- Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated technology environments
- Experience leading and mentoring engineers with a focus on delivery quality and operational readiness
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD automation and developer productivity tooling
- Experience translating reliability, performance, scalability, and observability needs into engineering designs and measurable outcomes
- Track record of identifying and implementing process improvements that increase team efficiency and software quality
- Familiarity with modern practices and tools in performance engineering and automation (e.g., load testing, profiling, and monitoring)
Benefits & conditions
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
