JPMorgan Lead Software Engineer - Payments Technology Platform 

United States, Illinois, Chicago 

657200453

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. You will get an opportunity to work on a state of the art, low latency, distributed, micro-services based platform which needs to scale to process billions of transactions per day. You will work in a high paced agile environment, bringing in your technology and algorithmic acumen to solve some of the hardest problems in computer science.

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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java programming 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), specifically Java on Spring/SpringBoot framework, mostly backend
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Advanced knowledge of Java Garbage collection, concurrency, streaming etc.
• Experience working with Kafka, Cassandra or similar distributed systems
• Understanding of software skills such as business analysis, development, maintenance, and software improvement

• Ideally 10+ years of experience as a full-stack Java Spring Boot engineer
• Advanced knowledge of Java Garbage collection, concurrency, streaming etc.
• Practical cloud native experience, working with cloud native applications, AWS, Amazon S3