JPMorgan Principal Software Engineer Executive Director 

United States, Illinois, Chicago 

327082897

Job responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems into technical specifications that an engineering team can implement under your guidance
• Own and deliver end-to-end cutting-edge data intensive, low latency solutions leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices
• Create complex and scalable coding frameworks using appropriate software design frameworks
• Champion engineering practices; Improve the effectiveness of the Engineering teams through coaching, mentoring and resolution of impediments
• Partner with leadership team for driving Non Functional Requirements, Modernization initiatives and controls
• Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Advise cross-functional teams on technological matters within your domain of expertise (low latency software architecture and engineering)
• Lead and participate in regular technical meetings, ensuring that architectural decisions align with the broader organizational goals and strategy

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Extensive practical experience in designing and building large-scale distributed systems with high degree of availability, fault-tolerance & scalability in cloud using Kubernetes, Service mesh, Kafka, API Gateways, SQL/NoSQL DB ; AWS patterns for big data processing, stream processing, application serving
• Deep, hands-on expertise in low latency, data intensive software engineering efforts
• Curious and comfortable with exploring new domains with the ability to consider both the technology & product angle
• Comfortable with ambiguity in an environment where you will be building something new.
• Ability to deal with direction changing quickly, and ability to learn and establish patterns quickly
• Ability to see the long term and not sacrifice the future for the present. You will choose technologies and approaches based on end goals
• Experience establishing and following high standards. Expectations that personal performance and team performance are to be nothing short of the best
• Desire to teach others and share knowledge. Ability to separate personal ambitions from the need for overall team, success.
• Desire and ability to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns