Lead Software Engineer - Senior Java Developer

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology & Audit Technology, 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. We are looking for innovative and passionate developers to solve challenging business problems using native cloud micro services, rich client micro frontends with great user experience. We are building the next generation of applications through a multi-year technology transformation that will automate the audit flows into best in class technologies and frameworks, delivering an improved user experience

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.
• Manage scope, timelines and prioritization of Technology projects, working closely with business stakeholders and product owners.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Perform Architectural reviews and Code-reviews.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain software applications for Internal Audit functions in close collaboration with our business/customer stakeholders.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of enterprise application development experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (core Java/J2EE server side hands on development experience based on Java technologies including core Java, Spring and application containers).
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s).
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Cloud - Experience with both Private and Public clouds with Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with JDBC/JPA frameworks like Spring and Hibernate.
• Familiarity with JS frameworks/libraries (e.g. ReactJS, Angular), JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS etc.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Understanding of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Knowledge on cloud-based application architectures, micro services, and distributed systems.
• TDD - Practical experience with unit testing using tools like JUnit and Mockito.
• Knowledge of build tools like Maven, source control like Git/Bitbucket with CI/CD.
• Database development skills including SQL, relational data design, stored procedures and database performance tuning.
• Experience with refactoring concepts and how they apply when building and maintaining high-quality solutions.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coach