What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking Customer Acquisition and Marketing Platforms team, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable.
Job responsibilities
- Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Executes solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Work in an Agile development environment with team members, including Product Owners
- Develop secure, high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others, and drive decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and technical operations
- Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the end-to-end development life cycle
- Influence peers and project decision makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
- 5 years of hands-on experience in Java, REST services, Spring and Spring Boot
- 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS especially Terraform, EKS, ECS, and Lambda
- 2 years of hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra)
- Collaborate with various stakeholders and independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight
- 5 years of demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operation stability
- Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka
- Above average database fundamentals – can write complex queries, understands how to organize data, and troubleshoot performance issues
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with strong customer focus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong Python experience, especially in the context of developing Agentic and Data solutions for large financial platforms.
- Experience with Agentic technologies (esp. LangChain), including design and implementation of production-grade solutions.
- Experience using Snowflake, Databricks or a similar PaaS offering.
- Familiarity with Graph databases.
