Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology, 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.
• Creating user interfaces and interactive features for web applications using languages and frameworks like HTML, CSS, and ReactJS.
• 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in software development of Micro services with Java, Spring Boot, Python.
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.
• Working knowledge of Automation Testing framework – Cucumber, Playright, Karma and Load Testing framework - Blazemeter.
• Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL and NoSQL databases e.g. MongoDB, PostGreSQL.
• Knowledge of Restful Web Services, WebSockets/JSON.
• Agile Development experience with SCRUM or similar methodologies.
• Advanced Proficiency in full – stack: front-end languages (e.g.HTML, CSS, ReactJS, AngularJS) and back-end languages (e.g., Java, Spring, Python etc.).
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery (CI/CD) methods, all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Hands on development experience with AI/ML models (Open AI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Gemini, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn) and apply techniques to real-world problems.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience managing projects end-to-end, from requirements scoping to successful launch.
• Completed AWS Developer or Solution Architect Certification.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Experience with React Context API, Axios for API integration, Jest, Cypress, Typescript, Webpack, React query, and HTML/CSS.
• Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning tools and framework in development.
• Observability and production management tools (ex. Splunk / Dynatrace / Grafana).