Lead Software Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Wealth Management, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your expertise and contributions will promote significant business impact, as you apply your deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across various technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

 

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.

•  Develop secure, high-quality production code in Java, and review and debug code written by others to ensure adherence to best practices and performance standards.

• Design and implement complex algorithmic, focusing on optimizing execution and performance in a low-touch trading environment.

• Collaborate with the product team to translate complex functionality into efficient and scalable algorithms.

• Continuously improve and refactor existing codebases to enhance performance, implement comprehensive testing, and ensure the reliability of trading systems.

• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus

• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle

• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

• Hands on experience with Java,J2EE, Spring/Spring boot, AWS services, including ECS,  S3, SQS, Lambda, Event Bridge, SNS and related technologies

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java/Python

• Experience with performance optimization and low-touch system design.

• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and multithreading in Java.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).

• Basic experience with Terraform (or other IaC tools) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.

• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Cloud certification like AWS Solution architect , Terraform certified

• Knowledge of the Wealth management and planning tool

• Expertise in using monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana and Dynatrace

• Python language knowledge 

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. 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 comprehen