
Lead Software Engineer - Backend Development
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 16 hours ago
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- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer - Backend Development within JPMorganChase's Consumer & Community Banking - Card Team. You will design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable backend solutions, writing production-grade Java/Python code and reviewing others' work. The role emphasizes operational stability, automation, and architecture discussions with vendors and internal teams, while promoting diversity and inclusion within the engineering culture. Requires 5+ years of hands-on experience, cloud/AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and strong collaboration with stakeholders in financial services.
Location: New York, NY, United States
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 JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking - Card Team, 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
- 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.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java, Python
- Hands on experience in Terraform and Public cloud AWS , including Lambda, ECS, RDS, EMR, and Glue.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Proven ability to work effectively with stakeholders
- Extensive experience in advanced design
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Experience in Scala
- Cloud certifications would be a plus (e.g., AWS)

