Lead Software Engineer - Java

Job Description
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 Payments - Liquidity and Account Solutions team , 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 creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Works closely with Solution & Technical Architects, Senior Engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development and can manage team(s) of 6-10 member.
• 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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Deep understanding of architectural concepts, issues and trends along with experience in applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve business and technical problems
• Demonstrable experience in people management as well as strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in coding in one or more object-orientated languages, including Java17+ with Spring Boot
• Experience of creating thread-safe concurrent code in Java or another JVM based language
• Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience with Docker and running Production workloads on Kubernetes
• Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and Cassandra)
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience with a statically compiled language like C, C++, Rust or Golang
• Knowledge of data serialisation formats (e.g. Google Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro or Parquet)
• Experience with gRPC
• Experience in performance / non-functional testing tools and techniques (e.g. JMeter, Gatling, Blazemeter)
• Experience with caching technologies, e.g. Redis, Valkey
• Certified Kubernetes knowledge (e.g. CKAD)
• Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)