Lead Software Engineer - Middleware

Next Frontier Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in New York City is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within Consumer Banking. You will be a core technical contributor on an agile team that builds trusted, scalable technology products in a secure environment.

You will execute creative software solutions across multiple domains, lead design reviews, and mentor teams while advancing CI/CD, cloud-native patterns, and resilience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of middleware software development experience.
• Deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production services.
• Develop software with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Implement automation and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.
• Execute across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Apply agile engineering practices, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security-focused development.
• Demonstrate proficiency in a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile).
• Apply in-depth knowledge of financial services and common enterprise IT systems.
• Deliver solutions using practical cloud-native engineering experience.
• Exposure to AWS with Terraform.

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.

Skills

Middleware development

CI/CD

SDLC

Cloud fundamentals

Security-focused development

AWS / Terraform experience

Java / general language

Tools

Kafka

Spring Boot

SQL databases

Git

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 Banking, 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of middleware software development experience
• Deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production services
• Develop software with advanced proficiency in at least one programming language
• Implement automation and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices
• Execute across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Apply agile engineering practices, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security-focused development
• Demonstrate proficiency in a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
• Apply in-depth knowledge of financial services and common enterprise IT systems
• Deliver solutions using practical cloud-native engineering experience
• Exposure to AWS with Terraform

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Server-side programming experience (Java; Java plus C/C#/Python acceptable)
• Experience designing and developing high-throughput, low-latency solutions for mission-critical 24/7 applications
• Spring experience (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Kafka)
• Experience distributing technologies and frameworks (Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop)
• Experience writing performant SQL and stored procedures (Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server/CockroachDB)
• Experience using messaging technologies (Kafka, WebSphere MQ/JMS, RabbitMQ)
• Experience building for testability and implement test automation (JUnit/Mockito, Cucumber/Gherkin), and use Git for source control

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

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