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Backend Senior Lead Software Engineer

AT JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase

Backend Senior Lead Software Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

  • Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  • Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
  • Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
  • Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java or Python.
  • In-depth knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with expertise in technical disciplines like cloud, AI, machine learning, or mobile.
  • Ability to independently tackle design and functionality problems with minimal oversight.
  • Practical experience with cloud-native technologies.
  • Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
  • Proficiency in coding with Core Java and Spring Boot.
  • Experience with SQL, Relational Databases (e.g., Oracle), JUnit, and Cucumber.
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment using modern programming and database querying languages.
  • Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience with Google Cloud, BigQuery, data engineering, Kubernetes, machine learning, and Dataflow.
  • Familiarity with modern front-end and back-end technologies.
  • Exposure to cloud technologies.
  • Proficiency with Terraform.
  • Experience in debugging containerized applications in Kubernetes.
  • Ability to scale cloud-based applications to 10x volume.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT:

This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase's review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, 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. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of 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 & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

Client-provided location(s): Palo Alto, CA, USA
Job ID: JPMorgan-210627754
Employment Type: Full Time