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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking in Architecture & Engineering 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.
You will create next generation of API Platform for Chase and you will lead and grow various aspects of API Platform and provide technical guidance and direction to advance our API product strategy so that our partner developers, internal developers, and business decision-makers can innovate and ship products for our customers faster.
Job responsibilities
- Facilitate API platform modernization using technologies regarding cloud based microservice applications, event-based communication, and data at the edge with eventual consistency.
- Build scalable and resilient API platform, services, and tooling to support all stages of API lifecycle. Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in API Marketplace.
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of API platform, tools, and practices of the API Development Life Cycle. 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
- 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 Java programming concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages in addition to Java
- 8+ years hands-on experience of developing micro services using Java and Spring Boot. Knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.
- Experience in development/support of REST API interfaces (SpringBoot, gRPC, Swagger, Flask), SQL and No-SQL technologies.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in 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.)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills - Experience with products related to APIs, SDKs, first party and third-party Developer Platforms and IAM (Identity and Access Management). Experience in API Management platforms, API Gateways, API Catalog and a deep understanding of API technologies – REST, GraphQL, gRPC.
- Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Strong understanding of hybrid cloud strategy and cloud computing technologies including Cloud Foundry, AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- 5+ years hands-on experience of building distributed system with micro-services. 5+ years hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL (Cassandra preferred). 3+ years hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes. 3+ years hands-on experience with event driven app architecture (Kafka preferred)
- 3+ years hands-on experience deploying and running workloads on AWS (preferably using EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). Experience with other cloud platforms (Google, Azure) a plus.
- Knowledge of other JVM languages such as Kotlin or Scala a plus
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
