We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Liquidity and Account Solutions team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

Works closely with Solution & Technical Architects, Senior Engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.  Manages daily activities of the development team with scrum & agile approach and instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules. Assesses compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performance at scale, and exceed customer expectations. Provides technical guidance to coders and infra systems and process optimization opportunities. Drives architectural reviews, code reviews and business demos. Manages the ongoing development of the team, including recruitment, performance management, coaching, and mentoring. Collaborates with peer teams on complex, global engineering efforts to ensure architecture agreement, resource coordination, and implementation timelines. Translates business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions. Ensures proper communication concerning changes in established milestones or challenges that may affect the outcome of a project's completion date.  Provides out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases.
 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience Deep understanding of architectural concepts, issues and trends. Demonstrable experience in people management as well as strong written and verbal communication skills. Proficient in Java17+ with Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and Cassandra)  Experience of creating thread-safe concurrent code in Java or another JVM based language Expertise in applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve business and technical problems Hands-on practical experience in secure system design, application development, automated regression testing, performance profiling and operational stability 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 Scrum, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines Ability to communicate effectively with senior management and other departments. Effectively organize and manage multiple organizational initiatives and encourage coworkers to do the same.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Hands on experience with a statically compiled language like C, C++, Rust or Golang Knowledge of data serialisation formats (e.g. Google Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro or Parquet) Experience with gRPC and  caching technologies, e.g. Redis, Valkey Experience in performance / non-functional testing tools and techniques (e.g. JMeter, Gatling, Blazemeter) Certified Kubernetes knowledge (e.g. CKAD) & Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)