Jersey City, NJ, United States
9 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Java/React

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management Marketing Technology 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

Architect, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java (preferably Java 17+) and Spring Boot.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 problemsDesign RESTful and/or GraphQL interfaces; ensure robust authentication, authorization, and input validation.Own system performance, reliability, observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and security best practices.Write comprehensive automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) and drive CI/CD excellence.Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and promote engineering standards and clean architecture.Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systemsLeads 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 architectureLeads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologiesAdds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

10+ Years of ExperienceHands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stabilityAdvanced in one or more programming language(s)Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methodsExperience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and at least one NoSQL store (e.g., MongoDB).Knowledge of messaging/streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous processing.Solid testing practices: JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test; front-end testing with Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright.Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and SecurityDemonstrated 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

Practical cloud native experience

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skillsDevelop high-quality, reusable React components (React 18+, TypeScript) and front-end featuresHands-on with AWS services: ECS/EKS or Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch.Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) a plus.Observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus.
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