Lead Software Engineer (Web Developer)

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Risk, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.
 

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• 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 firmwide 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
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting while thinking 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
• 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
• Write test cases, leverage unit and integration testing, develop functionality and automation​
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expert proficiency in JavaScript, Typescript, and the React.js ecosystem
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Ability to collaborate with high-performing teams and individuals
• Experience managing code versioning and Pull Request (PR)/review practices for large teams
• Passionate about building an innovative culture and modern technology organization, and desire to continuously learn and grow
• Advocate of code quality and consistent experience with unit, functional, and integration code testing
• Understanding of Agile SDLC methodology, including business analysis, development, maintenance, and improvement
• Strong partnership capabilities in a cross-disciplinary organization and desire to learn and understand the business, and how requirements satisfy business needs

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with monorepo design and efficient implementations
• Experience with building cloud-native applications, ideally familiar with AWS, Azure, Pivotal, or other cloud platforms
• Familiar with designing and consuming APIs/microservices frameworks
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (ex: Jenkins) with end-to-end automation
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Understanding of web development best practices including security, RESTful practices
• Engineering in Fintech working in Investment Banking or Capital Markets

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.

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