Lead Software Engineer - API Backend Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Connected Commerce technology offers and shopping 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


• 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 in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


• Experience in developing web-based applications using J2EE technology.


• Experience using Spring framework for building enterprise Java applications.


• Experience in developing Rest APIs and using Swagger tool to create the API specifications.


• Experience in using Oracle, Cassandra databases.


• Experience in using Kafka for data streaming.


• Experience using BlazeMeter, Splunk, Dynatrace


• Experience writing automation tests using Cucumber framework and manual testing using Postman/SoapUI.


• Experience in using Agile Scrum methodology for tracking the team work.


• Understands best practices for CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to AWS cloud technologies


• Cloud Foundry experience for developing and managing the web application