
Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Java/React/AWS
at J.P. Morgan
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- Not specified USD
- City
- Houston
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer in JPMorgan Chase's Commercial and Investment Banking practice, leading an agile team to design and deliver secure, scalable technology products. You will develop secure production code across front-end (React) and back-end (Java) components, and leverage AWS and CI/CD practices to ensure reliability and operational stability. The role involves architecture evaluation, mentoring teams, and implementing modern engineering practices, including automation, security, and resiliency. Location is Houston, TX.
Location: Houston, TX, 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 JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking, 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:
- 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
- Exhibits knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- 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 of applied experience
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Proficiency in Core Java/J2EE technologies and Spring.
- Expertise in full-stack Java, Python/R, AWS, CI/CD integration.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s), primarily Java, ReactJS
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- 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.)
- Understanding of web technologies (e.g. React, HTTP, REST, HTML, CSS, etc.)
- Designing complex and rich UI based on Figma design specs
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Strong engineering experience, focusing on ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript and core Java
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies, JS frameworks, solid understanding of Agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency and security.
- Practical cloud native experience
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability, using different mocking solutions to perform front end testing in isolation.
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in an enterprise environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

