Lead Software Engineer - API Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within the API Marketplace team. This role involves enhancing and delivering technology products and requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on API development, Java, and cloud technologies such as AWS. The successful candidate will lead problem-solving efforts, communicate with stakeholders, and drive engineering quality across various teams. Ideal for engineers passionate about solving complex challenges in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience with API platforms, API security, and resilient systems.

Responsibilities

• Solve business-critical problems with tech leads and product managers.
• Improve engineering deliverables and remove technical debt.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code.

Skills

System design

Application development

Java

Spring Boot

REST

Microservices

RDBMS

NoSQL databases

Cloud Native

Agile

DevOps

TDD

AWS

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

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 - API Marketplace 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.

You will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and enhancing the API Platform that empowers our API developers. We seek engineers with a broad technical perspective and a passion for solving complex challenges using expertise across multiple disciplines. In this role, you will manage end-to-end problem-solving, advocate for effective solutions across diverse technology stacks, and help drive significant business value for our customers through robust API offerings.

Responsibilities

• Brings discipline and creativity to solve business-critical problems, working with tech leads, product managers, and designers to bring outcomes to fruition
• Identifies opportunities to remove technical debt and works to improve the quality of engineering deliverables
• Communicates with stakeholders and is comfortable leading discussions with customers
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, technical operations, and processes, providing leadership grounded in technical expertise and effective communication
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Contributes to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Fosters a 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.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Hands-on programming/application development experience utilizing Java, Spring Boot, REST, Microservices, RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Cloud Native, Agile, DevOps, and TDD
• Recent experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, and utilization of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Prior experience in building or using API Platforms, with deep expertise in one or more areas of the end-to-end API stack, including cloud connectivity, network diagnosis, resilient systems, API security, authentication/authorization, API gateways, and API design spanning specification, standards, documentation, and governance.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with considerable in-depth expertise in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Deep understanding of networking and connectivity, including diagnosing network latencies, DNS behavior, cloud connectivity, and content delivery networks
• Strong knowledge of API security, including transport-level security, payload encryption, signature algorithms, certificate management, OAuth, and DDoS protection
• Experience designing highly scalable and resilient software systems on public cloud platforms such as AWS, utilizing various resiliency design principles and practices
• Expertise in API developer specifications, standards, and documentation, with prior experience driving adoption of best practices at scale