Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Join a team where your technical expertise shapes the future of financial technology at one of the world's most influential firms. At JPMorganChase, you'll have the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact challenges that drive real business outcomes within a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous growth.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within 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 delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

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Job responsibilities

- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Deliver end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native, microservices-based applications, leveraging the latest technologies and best industry practices
- Use domain modeling techniques to build best-in-class business products, structuring software for clarity, testability, and evolution
- Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Lead communities of practice across software engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies
- Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable solutions by leveraging modern architectural patterns that ensure zero-downtime releases and optimize data performance
- Continuously evaluate and update technologies and patterns to keep systems current and resilient
- Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Proficiency in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, Node.js) with experience building microservices-based applications; for full-stack roles, proficiency also includes front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular)
- Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), distributed systems, and web technologies including RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and JSON
- Hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL and NoSQL databases
- Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision
- Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and a solid understanding of the software development life cycle
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods, including CI/CD pipelines
- Advanced understanding of application resiliency and security principles

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Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

- Experience in the banking or financial services domain
- AWS or equivalent cloud certification
- Demonstrated proficiency in emerging technical disciplines such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile development
- Strong communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to drive broader team impact by sharing and contributing best practices across engineering communities