Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Job Description

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

Join our group where you will have the opportunity deliver trusted market-leading technology products supporting Alternate Lending.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and community banking Alternate Lending , you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

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
• Develops secure high-quality production code
• Develop, test, and debug automated tasks (Apps, Systems, Infrastructure)
• Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases.
• Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems.
• Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions.
• Build automations to reduce manual interventions for production operations.
• Build real-time monitoring and observability tools and processes.
• Build and drive adoption for greater self-healing and resiliency patterns.
• Lead and participate in performance tests; identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands.
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong development skills in Java and AWS (EKS, ECS,S3, Aurora).
• Experience with the Spring framework (Core, REST API, web services, messaging), with experience in Spring Boot and microservice architecture.
• Experience with data storage solutions, including SQL, Postgres, NoSQL databases (Cassandra ), data lakes, and S3.
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools such as Kibana, Splunk, Elastic Search, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Datadog.
• Experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment processes using tools like Jenkins and Spinnaker.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues in production systems.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Associate Developer, DevOps, Certified Kubernetes Developer).