Lead Software Engineer - Java/JavaScript/Python

 Employer Description

Chase, a leading financial services firm, is committed to helping households, small businesses, and nonprofits achieve their financial goals. We offer a competitive rewards package, including base salary, discretionary incentive compensation, and a range of benefits such as comprehensive health care, retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and more. We value diversity and inclusion, and do not discriminate on any basis. Our Consumer & Community Banking division offers a variety of financial services, leading the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth, and ranking first in customer satisfaction.

Job Description

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase with in Community and Consumer Banking in Developer Practices and Release Engineering 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.  

Job responsibilities

• Execute 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
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Partner with Product and Platform teams to solidify CI/CD capabilities & related toolchain for all Technology stacks and Application patterns
• Develop and champion exemplar implementations for various approaches for each CI/CD capability and create Tech primers accordingly in partnership with other Lines of Business and Platform teams
• Train and coach SMEs for all capabilities across Product teams to accelerate adoption
• Plan, Publish and Facilitate adoption parties and support asynchronous adoption
• Identify and implement sustainable automated ways to gather and govern the adoption of CI/CD capabilities
• Lead 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
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development utilizing Java/JavaScript/Python based platforms for building mission critical enterprise applications
• Proven knowledge of using Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) practices using Jenkins or similar technologies
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented principles, Microservice driven architecture, REST architectural style and RESTful APIs
• Experience working with the core Spring Framework, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud and SCM tools like Git, Subversion
• Hands-on experience in one or more modern programming languages and cloud platforms like Java/ JavaScript/Python on AWS/ Pivotal cloud foundry/GCP/Azure using Kubernetes
• Knowledge of one or more database technologies, preferably Oracle, Cassandra
• Ability to architect and own end-to-end solution
• Knowledge of one or more Messaging technologies, preferably Apache Kafka
• Strong understanding of test driven development, Shift-Left focus, Engineering mindset and passion for innovative development

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong research, investigation, presentation and evaluation skills.  
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Chase 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. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contri