Lead Software Engineer - Cloud/Python - Full-time

Position Overview

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 Corporate Technology organization, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. In this role, you will implement critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the 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.
• Contributes to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced hands-on coding experience in Python.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Comprehensive knowledge 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 areas including cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its IT systems.
• Practical experience with cloud-native technologies and platforms such as AWS.
• Experience in Java, Design Patterns, Spring, and Kubernetes (k8s).

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: Competitive base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location, with the potential for commission-based and discretionary incentive compensation, including forfeitable equity.
• Benefits: Comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching, and more.