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 JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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
• Lead the design and implementation of key solutions to extend, enhance and modernize our platforms.
• Balance individual contributor hands-on coding with technical/people leadership of a scrum team.
• Collaborate with Product partners to shape and drive the roadmap
• Coach and grow engineers within the scrum team.
• Take accountability for the quality, stability and resiliency of the team’s deliveries.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on micro services concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on experience developing micro services using Java, Spring Boot, REST, Micro services, Cloud Native, DevOps, and Test Driven Development
• Hands on experience with Database technologies (SQL, DB2, Oracle, No SQL, Cassandra or CockRoachDB) 
• Experience working within a multi-stakeholder environment partnering with Design Authority and Architect across an organization.
• Expertise in breaking down product requirements into achievable solutions and execution plans
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in explaining technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods, and understanding 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
• Practical cloud native experience

• Experience building distributed systems with micro services
• Experience with public cloud AWS and container platforms such as AWS ECS, Dockers and Kubernetes