
Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS,Kafka
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 18 hours ago
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Lead a team of 6-8 engineers focusing on Java and AWS to deliver secure, scalable payment technology. This role sits within JPMorgan Chase's Lending Innovation product and requires technical leadership across design, development, and operations, including reviewing code and solving complex problems. You will drive architectural evaluations with external partners and internal teams, promote best practices, and foster a diverse, inclusive team culture.
Location: Wilmington, DE, 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 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.
Help shape the future of payments at JPMorgan Chase . Your effort and ideas will drive real change for millions of customers in client banking, automated technology and more. And working here means you have the ambition to shape the future. Where people inspire excellence, leaders invest in your growth, tools and technology amplify your skills, and our scale multiplies your impact. This is what happens when you join JPMorgan Chase, where ambition meets possibility. And we want to meet you.
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 in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of 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.
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
- Experience with distributed streaming platform (Kafka)
- 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
Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team

