What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer - Java, Kafka, AWS position at JPMorgan Chase?
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Lending Innovation product, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Lead a team of 6-8 engineers with a strong focus on Java and AWS technologies, ensuring effective collaboration and communication
- 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 for quality assurance.
- 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 partners 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
- Hands on experience with Java,J2EE, Sprint/Spring boot, AWS services, including ECS, EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, EventBridge, SNS and related technologies
- Strong familiarities with micro-service designs and proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Deep technical knowledge of utilizing frameworks to deliver applications, and being able to dive deep into code implementations
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies
- Proficient in implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices to streamline software development processes, enhance collaboration, and ensure rapid delivery of high-quality software products.
- Skilled in designing and developing applications with robust resiliency features, ensuring they can withstand and recover from failures, maintain availability, and provide consistent performance under varying conditions.
- Proficient in integrating security measures within the software development lifecycle, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and implementing best practices to safeguard applications against potential security threats and breaches.
- Experience with distributed streaming platform (Kafka)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- AWS Developer or Architect Certifications
- 6 Years of Java development experience
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Proficiency in databases like Oracle and Cassandra(any other no sql database).
- Expertise in using monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana and creating dashboards and alerts using these