Lead Software Engineer - Java & AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer Community Banking, 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, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) (e.g., Java, and Spring/Spring boot in micro services applications). 
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Build Micro services that will run on the bank’s internal cloud and the public cloud platform,  and experience with code repository, IDE, developmental tool sets and CI/CD pipelines
• Working proficiency in test/behavior driven development and knowledge of testing frameworks like Mockito, Junit, Cucumber, etc. 

• Familiarity with any of these Observability tools: Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana
• Familiarity with distributed databases like AWS DynamoDB, Cassandra, CockroachD
• Experience of implementing end to end solutions/products using Cloud technologies (AWS preferred)
• Strong understanding of OOP & SOA principles, design patterns, industry best practices