Lead Software Engineer - Java/Kotlin

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Java/Kotlin at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) Markets - Transact 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
• 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 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
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in building high-performance latency-sensitive event-driven applications
• Strong experience in building concurrent/multi-threaded software in Java and/or Kotlin, Microservices, latency sensitive applications
• Experience developing web-based applications, preferably with large user bases
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Excellent understanding of application resiliency, and security
• Strong computer science foundations
• Ability to work well in a team environment, contributing to a culture of collaboration and mutual support
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience with containerised technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in forex (FX), options, emerging markets, commodities, or rates products
• Experience with the following tools & technologies: FIX, Solace, ActiveMQ / RabbitMQ / Kafka or similar
• Experience in cloud technologies
• Familiarity with agile development practices