Lead Software Engineer - Java & AWS

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 Consumer & Community Banking in Architecture & Engineering 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 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
• Facilitate API platform modernization using technologies regarding cloud based microservice applications, event-based communication, and data at the edge with eventual consistency.
• Build scalable and resilient API platform, services, and tooling to support all stages of API lifecycle. Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in API Marketplace.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of API platform, tools, and practices of the API Development Life Cycle. 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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java programming concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Hands-on experience of developing micro services using Java and Spring Boot. Knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in development/support of REST API interfaces (SpringBoot, gRPC, Swagger, Flask), SQL and No-SQL technologies.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience of building distributed system with micro-services, SQL and NoSQL (Cassandra), Docker and Kubernetes, event driven app architecture (Kafka )
• Experience deploying and running workloads on AWS (using EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). Experience with other cloud platforms (Google, Azure).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with products related to APIs, SDKs, first party and third-party Developer Platforms and IAM (Identity and Access Management). Experience in API Management platforms, API Gateways, API Catalog and a deep understanding of API technologies - REST, GraphQL, gRPC.
• Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Strong understanding of hybrid cloud strategy and cloud computing technologies including Cloud Foundry, AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience