Lead Software Engineer - Java & Spring Boot

Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate

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 Commercial and  Investment Bank's Markets Tech 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

• Execute 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
• Develop secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead 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
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience with development of Web Services and Middleware using Java and Spring Boot or Cloud Frameworks.
• Solid understanding of REST API design and WebSocket
• Experience with JDBC/JPA frameworks such as Hibernate.
• Experience with SQL databases such as Sybase and Oracle, experience with NoSQL databases such as HBase, Cassandra, and tools such as Apache Spark.
• Experience with messaging and integration frameworks like JMS, AMQP, MQ, Kafka
• Experience developing with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito and Cucumber.
• Working Knowledge of SCM, packaging, and build tools - GIT, Subversion, Jenkins, NPM, and Maven.
• Demonstrated analytical techniques and ability to make recommendations to technical and program leadership to improve the product, process or technology and present ideas clearly and concisely.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex issues in an easy to understand manner.
• Creative problem solver and solution developer when presented with conflicting requirements, business demands and technical risks/issues.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Knowledge of Banking domain a plus.
• Prior experience working at a large tier global financial institution.