Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Home Lending organization, you are an integral part of the 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 leadership and guidance across engineering team, ensuring best practices are followed in software development.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Guides teams on the use of architecture, coding patterns, languages, and frameworks in accordance with industry standards.
• Leads design and architecture of complex software systems, ensuring scalability performance and security.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continues learning and improvement.
• 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
• Drive continues improvement in software engineering practices, tools, and processes.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements, provide progress updates, and manage expectations.
• Adds to the 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.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced hands-on with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring JPA/Hibernate, REST based services, etc
• Expertise in Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17
• Experience with Kafka and Kubernetes
• Hands-on SQL optimization knowledge and Oracle database
• 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.
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS. (Understanding and working experience in AWS applications, and understanding of resiliency, scalability, observability, monitoring, etc.)
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Front-end technologies such as React, JavaScript, or Angular
• Experience in Machine Learning (ML) / Large Language Model (LLM) application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines, and solving business problems.

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 benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and