Lead Software Engineer - Backend Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 16 days ago
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Lead Software Engineer on the Consumer & Community Banking Digital Utilities team at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for building and delivering backend systems that make customer account data available for chase.com and mobile. Core duties include designing and developing high-performance, scalable Java/Spring services, integrating with data producers, and ensuring operational stability for mission-critical, low-latency platforms. The role leads technical evaluations, communities of practice, and applies modern SDLC practices (TDD, CI/CD) across distributed systems. Requires influencing architecture, mentoring, and working with cloud and streaming technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Cassandra.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Location: New York, NY, United States
Organization Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Digital Utilities team, 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.
Our Team is focused on making Customer account data (examples: Credit Card, Investments, Deposit, Lending) available for chase.com and mobile experiences. Our team works on integrating with data-producers to ingest, reconcile and deliver utility-grade capabilities for data access. Our solutions are used to provide site-resilience and drive unique and novel Customer experiences. We deliver mission critical applications that run into thousands of TPS and provide low-latency, always-available capability for millions of Customers.
Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Demonstrates knowledge of architecture and design across all systems
- Exhibits in multiple modern programming languages
- Utilizes in modern SDLC practices such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment
- Applies of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
- Possesses understanding of financial control and budget management
- Collaborates to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
- Extensive core Java development experience with Spring or similar framework
- Expert understanding of data structures, algorithms & multi-threaded programming
- Experience working on high throughput mission critical high-performance platforms
- Ability to influence architecture and design across distributed systems
- Experience in designing and building reusable services
- Proven track record in application delivery and stakeholder management
- Experience with Cloud Foundry, AWS and Kubernaties
- Stack: Java, Spring, AWS, Kubernaties, Kafka, MQ, Cassandra, Oracle, Spark, Control-M, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, PowerMock, JMeter, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Jenkins and etc.
Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with Distributed Platforms (Kubernaties, AWS EMR ), Java Spark and Control-M
- Experience developing open-source libraries or internal libraries that are integrated into applications by other internal teams
- Behavior Driven Development using Cucumber and Continual Integration with Jenkins & Spinnaker
- Experience with Cloud native software deployment ideally AWS & PCF
- Experience with message bus technologies such as Kafka or MQ
- Experience with database technologies (e.g. Cassandra, Oracle, DynamoDB)
- Exceptional client relationship skills including the ability to discover true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical approaches, drive efforts to meet committed timelines with optimal solutions.
