Sr Lead Software Engineer - Back End

Testing Site - JPMC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Palo Alto seeks a Sr. Lead Software Engineer to join the Commercial & Investment Bank Treasury Services – Graphite Platform.

You will work on designing, building, and securing scalable software components, leading teams, and driving architecture decisions in a fast-paced, enterprise context. As a senior member, you will mentor engineers, develop production-grade code in Java and Python, and shape the platform's direction using modern cloud-native patterns, containers

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple teams, and provides technical guidance to support business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Analyzes large data sets to identify problems and inform decisions.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Codes 40%+ in Java (Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs); data modeling and state management.

Skills

Java programming

Python programming

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST API Development

Design Patterns

JPA

JUnit

LOG4J

Cloud technologies

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Software Development Life Cycle

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Assume a vital position as a key member of a high-performing team that delivers performance excellence. Your role will be instrumental in shaping the future at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Treasury Services – Graphite Platform, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job responsibilities

• Leads multiple teams, and regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Codes 40% and more in Java (Spring boot, Microservices, REST API Development, Design Patterns, JPA, Junit, LOG4J), Data modeling(10%) and designing resilient state management solutions(20%).
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software 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
• Creates detailed design documentation that demonstrates knowledge of building/supporting enterprise-level 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
• Lead others as hands on Full stack developer including designing and building hybrid Cloud solutions and expertise in a containerization framework with IaC, preferably Kubernetes.
• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting. Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity.
• Drive a culture of automation and operational excellence and AI adoption and best practices

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience with leading a team
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages - Java / Python with implementation experience with Spring Boot / Microservices / RestAPIs
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Strong Programming Experience with cloud technologies and distributed application frameworks.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence based productivity and autonomous SDLC frameworks.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with CNCF standards on Observability and 12 factor app principles. Trade off analyses.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT: This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.