Lead Software Engineer

Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology, you play a vital role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. As a key technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's strategic goals.
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
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Minimum of 8+ years of total experience, with significant experience in software architecture
• Ability to be hands-on with development tasks (70% of the time) while leading and mentoring a team of developers (30% of the time).
• Proficiency in Java for backend development.
• Experience with AWS services for cloud computing and deployment.
• Frontend development skills with React or Angular.
• Experience with relational databases(Postgres, Oracle, Aurora etc.)
• Strong understanding and experience in designing, developing, and deploying microservices.
• Ability to work closely with architects on both high-level and low-level design aspects.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, SQS, ECS/EKS , S3.
• Experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch for search and analytics capabilities.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Terraform
• Experience with No-SQL databases
• Knowledge in leveraging AI tools like Codeium and Copilot to enhance development efficiency and productivity.