Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase, 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 delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firms business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems and deliver end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native, microservices-based applications, leveraging the latest technologies and best industry practices.
Use domain modeling techniques to build best-in-class business products, structuring software for clarity, testability, and evolution.
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 communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Promptly investigate and resolve issues, ensuring they do not resurface and continuously update technologies and patterns to keep systems current.
Design and build solutions that avoid single points of failure using scalable architectural patterns and design and build scalable, secure, and reliable solutions by leveraging modern architectural patterns that ensure zero-downtime releases and optimize data performance.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, including system design, application development, testing, and operational support.
Proficiency in back-end technologies (e.g., Python, Flask, Django) with experience building microservices-based applications; for full-stack roles, proficiency also includes front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular).
Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision.
Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services, WebSockets, and JSON with hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL and NoSQL databases.
Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and an understanding of the software development life cycle.
Understanding of application resiliency and proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods as well as all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security and demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Strong soft skills, including presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and stakeholder management.
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
Ability to drive broader impact by sharing and contributing best practices.
Experience in the banking domain.
AWS certification.
