Senior Lead Software Engineer - Team Lead - Accelerator Business

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Out of the successful launch of Chase in 2021, we're a new team, with a new mission. We're creating products that solve real world problems and put customers at the center - all in an environment that nurtures skills and helps you realize your potential. Our team is key to our success. We're people-first. We value collaboration, curiosity and commitment.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Accelerator Business in the Onboarding and KYC team, you are the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By your nature, you are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. You thrive in working in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects - and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them.

While we're looking for professional skills, culture is just as important to us. We understand that everyone's unique - and that diversity of thought, experience and background is what makes a good team, great. By bringing people with different points of view together, we can represent everyone and truly reflect the communities we serve. This way, there's scope for you to make a huge difference - on us as a company, and on our clients and business partners around the world.

Job responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 4 backend engineers with scope to increase
• Identify skill gaps and help grow the team as needed
• Drive greenfield projects and set standards for excellence in design, implementation, and delivery
• Develop secure high-quality production code, review and debug code written by others
• Enforce best practices in coding, testing, and code reviews
• Influence organisational level architecture, design patterns and practices, and standards
• Work with product managers to align technical work with business goals and break down product requirements into actionable technical tasks
• Provide operational support of production systems within a you-build-it-you-run-it culture
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Refine and improve development and deployment processes
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering collaboration and growth
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing microservices-based architectures with a focus on scalability and reliability
• Proficiency in either Java or Kotlin, and Spring Boot, with experience in building scalable, distributed systems
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems in production
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle practices, including CI/CD, TDD, security and Agile methodologies
• Practical cloud native experience, deploying Kubernetes applications on a cloud service provider, such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Cloud

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience with event-driven architectures and tools like Kafka for messaging and streaming
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks like Temporal.io or similar workflow engines
• Knowledge of cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and containerization best practices
• Experience optimizing database performance, particularly with CockroachDB or other distributed databases

About Us J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. 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.

About the Team Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.