Java Lead Software Engineer - #1707252

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As a Java Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Client Onboarding & Know Your Customer technology group, 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

• Execute creative software solutions, design, develop, and troubleshoot technically, thinking beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or resolve technical problems.


• 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 evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.


• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to promote awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies.


• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and practical experience.


• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.


• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java.


• Experience with automation and continuous delivery methodologies.


• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.


• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.


• Proven expertise in software applications and technical processes within disciplines such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.


• Experience building enterprise applications with high availability and performance using J2EE, Spring, ORM, Kafka, Elastic Search, and Distributed Cache.


• Hands-on experience with UI frameworks like React.


• Proficiency in SQL and database development.


• Experience managing technologists and building large enterprise applications beyond exposing REST endpoints, following cloud-native and 12-factor methodology.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at the code level.