JPMorgan Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Kafka 

United States, New Jersey, Jersey City 

848286873

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 software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability. Strong expertise with demonstrable experience in building mission critical systems using Java is a must.
• Proficiency in using Kafka is a big plus. Expertise in Avro design, AVRO schema registry, partitioning of Kafka topics, exception handling, Kstreams, KSQL will help you to be productive and contributing to critical deliveries from day one.
• Demonstrated proficiency in setting up and evolving the AWS infrastructure of our web application as we move from private to public cloud
• 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.)
• Knowledge in the API design sessions and selection of design patterns that are selected for use by the team. Experience building scalable Rest APIs, knowledge of GraphQL, is needed. Technical documentation of service API (using Swagger)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

• Familiarity with Hibernate and Spring JPA coupled with database design best practices will help us build solid services that can scale to support multiple global regions
• Experience in buildinglightweight user interface using Angular or React is a plus