Lead Software Engineer SWE – Backend (Java or Python)

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking Customer Acquisition and Marketing Platforms team you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing building and delivering trusted market-leading technology products that are secure stable and scalable.

Job responsibilities

• Provide direction oversight and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level engineers working on basic to moderately complex tasks
• Executes solutions design development and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Work in an Agile development environment with team members including Product Owners
• Develop secure high-quality production code review and debug code written by others and drive decisions influencing product design application functionality and technical operations
• Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit component integration and end-to-end testing
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks tools and practices of the end-to-end development life cycle
• Influence peers and project decision makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• 5 years of hands-on experience in Java REST services Spring and Spring Boot
• 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS especially Terraform EKS ECS and Lambda
• 2 years of hands-on experience with databases (MySQL PostgreSQL Cassandra)
• Collaborate with various stakeholders and independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight
• 5 years of demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operation stability
• Understand next generation messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka
• Above average database fundamentals can write complex queries understands how to organize data and troubleshoot performance issues
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with strong customer focus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Strong Python experience especially in the context of developing Agentic and Data solutions for large financial platforms.
• Experience with Agentic technologies (esp. LangChain) including design and implementation of production-grade solutions.
• Experience using Snowflake Databricks or a similar PaaS offering.
• Familiarity with Graph databases.