Lead Software Engineer - Java, React, Oracle, AWS

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 Commercial and Investment Bank - Securities Lending, 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 developing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Creating user interfaces and interactive features for web applications using various languages and frameworks.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate the remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Leads evaluation sessions with internal teams to probe architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for integration within existing systems.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Adds 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 in system design, application development, testing, and ensuring operational stability.
• Experience in developing Micro services using Java, Spring Boot, and Python.
• Experience with cloud technologies, distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and web technologies.
• Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL databases such as Oracle.
• Knowledge of Restful Web Services and WebSockets/JSON.
• Agile development experience with SCRUM or similar methodologies.
• Advanced proficiency in front-end languages and libraries (e.g., C#, React) and back-end languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Spring, Python) with practical cloud-native experience.
• Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle along with automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Experience with build and integration tools, including knowledge of JIRA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, GitHub, and BitBucket.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across the entire Software Development Life Cycle in a large corporate environment.
• Completed AWS Developer or Solution Architect Certification.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its IT systems.
• Familiarity with observability and production management tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana).
• A keen interest in staying ahead of modern development trends and experimenting with emerging technologies such as AI and Machine Learning.