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JPMorgan Chase Lead Software Engineer - Java in Houston, Texas
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Banking 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
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
Works directly with business, quant, and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas/solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
Develops specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
Provides end-to-end ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
Confirms technology solutions meet business and client requirements while ensuring they are robust and supportable
Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
Provides 3 rd Level production support on a rotational basis; Analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Expertise in Java Core concepts, including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17
Strong experience with Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, Spring JPA/Hibernate, REST based services, etc
Proficiency with JVM performance analysis, including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, GC tuning, etc.
Experience designing and implementing scalable Microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs, analyze system performance using tools such as Dynatrace, etc.
Experience with Databases - relational as well as No-SQL - Sybase, Oracle, Mongo DB
Experience with Messaging Middleware platforms - Kafka / RabbitMQ
Experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Exposure to cloud compute platforms, such as AWS
Knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans