Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking Customer Acquisition and Marketing Platforms team, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable.

Job responsibilities

• Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Executes solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Work in an Agile development environment with team members, including Product Owners
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others, and drive decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and technical operations
• Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the end-to-end development life cycle
• Influence peers and project decision makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java, REST services, Spring and Spring Boot
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS especially Terraform, EKS, ECS, and Lambda
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra)
• Collaborate with various stakeholders and independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight
• 5+ years of demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operation stability
• Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka
• Above average database fundamentals – can write complex queries, understands how to organize data, and troubleshoot performance issues
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with strong customer focus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong Python experience, especially in the context of developing Agentic and Data solutions for large financial platforms.
• Experience with Agentic technologies (esp. LangChain), including design and implementation of production-grade solutions.
• Experience using Snowflake, Databricks or a similar PaaS offering.
• Familiarity with Graph databases.