Sr Lead Software Engineer- Android

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Columbus, Ohio to enhance and deliver technology products. This role requires 5+ years of experience and proficiency in Kotlin, RxJava, and RESTful APIs. The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecture design, troubleshooting mobile app issues, and contributing to a collaborative team culture. The position offers a chance to work on cutting-edge technology in a diverse environment, focusing on customer-centered journeys.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience with system design and application development.
• Advanced skills in one or more programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications.
• Identify hidden problems in data for improved coding hygiene.
• Contribute to software engineering communities and explore new technologies.

Skills

Kotlin

RxJava

RESTful API integration

Unit testing

Multi-threading

Software engineering methodology

Cloud technology

Education

Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Gradle

Jenkins

Mockito

Espresso

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within an agile 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.. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications and ensures design constraints are met by software code development.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to improve coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and participates in events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Adds to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Focus on creating an informative, data-promoten journey with a customer-focused mindset
• Demonstrate the ability to understand requirements and translate them into efficient code
• Gain experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, RxJava, LiveData, mobile UI fundamentals (from layout to animations), and RESTful API integration
• Utilize experience with unit and functional testing libraries like Mockito and Espresso
• Leverage experience with distributed systems, caching, and persistence solutions.
• Apply understanding of architectural patterns such as MVP and MVVM, and application design patterns (Gang of Four).
• Utilize understanding of build and CI systems such as Gradle and Jenkins

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
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge 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

• Work with mobile application team to setup monitoring and resolve production issues/crashes on mobile devices. Assist with troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and ensure that software bugs are corrected in an expedient manner. Communicate resolution & next steps.
• Experience with mobile testing in areas like unit test, automation test, testing/debugging using emulator and device including experience with mobile application profiling for memory analysis, thread analysis and heap analysis on devices, emulators and simulators.
• Can work with large codebases, managing shared resources and libraries and involvement in the ongoing development one or more mobile applications available in Apple's App Store or Google’s Play Store.
• Ability to troubleshoot and identify root causes under time pressure.
• Experience building localized, multi-tenant solutions.
• Strong experience with data structures and multithreading.