Location: Chicago, IL, 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 Community & Consumer Bank - Digital Communications 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
• Demonstrates personal agility and collaborates effectively within a team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) such as Java, using Spring frameworks or similar
• Advanced hand on experience of databases, such as, Cockroach, Cassandra or similar
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle, API design, Automation, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Hands on  architecture design experience and working knowledge of distributed systems, including event-based system architecture using platforms such as Kafka.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Practical cloud native experience, such as AWS, in a highly scalable environment
• Hands on experience with containers, such as Kubernetes or Docker
• Proficiency in performance analysis and tuning

• Hands on experience as Full Stack Software Engineer with knowledge of the impact of APIs on a User Interface 
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems