Lead Android engineer responsible for designing and delivering secure, high-quality mobile applications. Develop production Kotlin/Java code, create architecture artifacts, drive AI-assisted engineering adoption, enforce testing and secure coding standards, debug and profile with Android Studio, integrate REST APIs, and coach teams on resiliency and security.
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and 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 conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation
- Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
- Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
- Gathers, analyses, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
- Writes secure and high-quality code using Kotin, Java, Unit testing tools
- Use of Android frameworks and APIs such as Android SDK, Rx Java, Jetpack libraries (LiveData, ViewModel, Room, Navigation), XML layouts, Jetpack Compose. Experience using Android Studio tools including Layout Inspector, Profiler, Logcat, and Memory Analyzer for debugging and profiling.
- Strong experience with Data Structures, Type Conversions, Multi-Threading. Experience with one or more Design Patterns – MVC, MVVM, MVI, MVP, Singleton. Enthusiasm for automated testing and experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and Espresso. Understanding of build systems such as Gradle and Jenkins.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient in coding in one or more languages (Java, Kotlin). Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
- Experience working with Restful API integration
- Experience working with Keychain, Wallet, Apple security standards
- Experience in Unit testing libraries like Xcode unit tests, Gherkin scripts for UI Test Automation.
- Strong understanding of java and android ecosystem
- All mobile UI fundamentals, from layout to animations. Experience working with large codebases, managing shared resources and libraries
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with Agile development including daily scrum and weekly iteration reviews and planning
- Understanding of SOLID principles and architectural patterns such as MVP, MVI and MVVM
- Hands on experience and is comfortable working at code level and participating all SDLC processes
- Created one or more mobile applications with over 100K downloads
- Experience in Android mobile application development with at least one application in the Google Play app store
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