Lead Software Engineer - Sr. Java Developer

Join our Digital Communications team at JPMorgan Chase & Co., a key player in the Consumer & Commercial Banking organization. We orchestrate and deliver nearly 1 billion Short Message Service (SMS) Texts, Push Notifications, & Emails per month, offering an exciting opportunity to contribute to our large-scale operations and grow your career in a dynamic environment.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Digital Communications team, you'll be a key player on a team that's responsible for the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of our internal technical systems that process millions of incoming transactions per day from multiple upstream sources, merging that data with the proper templates, & ultimately delivering those messages to our JPMorgan & Chase Banking customers in near real time.

Job responsibilities

• Executing 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
• Developing secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifying opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leading 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
• Leading communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies and working with & mentoring an AGILE team composed of 6-8 software engineers and guiding them towards success
• Developing & delivering quality applications on-time according to requirements & roadmap commitments as well as sharing & teaching excellent software engineering best practices & principles (data structures, multithreading and algorithms)
• Writing & reviewing high quality code that will serve as an example for other engineers and reviewing & sharing areas of technical improvement within existing applications
• Maintaining technical knowledge & operational support models by documenting our applications
• Creating & maintaining the use of unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing
• Understanding & adhering to AGILE ceremonies, aligning to the DoD, & Do, as well as SRE best practices, uplifting systems and processes
• Taking part in regular capacity & roadmap planning sessions based upon known velocity and engaging with Product Partners to clarify business requirements & achieving go-live Signoff as well as adhering to proper Change, Release, & Problem Management best practices

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Practical cloud native experience
• Minimum of 6 years of proven professional experience with Java/Spring Boot
• Advanced knowledge of & experience with event driven, microservice, REST/API, cloud based architectures
• Advanced knowledge of & experience with data structures, multithreading and algorithms
• Proficient with databases, either relational or NoSQL
• Proficient with standard application architectures, clean, & coding best practices
• Proficient with Kafka and/or other message based processing technologies
• Continuously automating the CI/CD pipeline and engaging in post deployment validation best practices
   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Cockroach databases
• Experience with AWS & Kubernetes Cloud Technologies
• Experience with high-volume multi-threaded processing environments
  
  
   

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 contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefi