Lead Software Engineer - Java or Python, AWS

Job Description
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with a proven track record of leading teams to build high throughput, customer impacting applications.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking Personalization and Insights team, you'll help build and support high throughput, low latency applications which leverage state of the art machine learning architectures, and which are deployed in AWS. These applications power personalized experiences across Chase Consumer & Community Banking channels, to help weave a user experience that includes traditional banking services with other services in the Travel, Merchant Offer Shopping, and Dining spaces.
The Consumer & Community Banking division at Chase provides customers with a comprehensive range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans, and payment processing. As a market leader in U.S. credit card sales and deposit growth, we offer the most widely used digital solutions and consistently rank first in customer satisfaction.
Job responsibilities

• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others.
• Provide regular technical guidance and direction to business teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Drive decisions that impact product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert across one or more functional areas.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community by advocating for firmwide frameworks, tools, and best practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influence peers and project stakeholders to adopt and apply leading-edge technologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Hands-on software development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C++, or Python.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in at least two of the following areas, with developing expertise in the others:
  • High-throughput, low-latency microservice development using AWS services (EKS, ECS, Fargate, ELB, etc.).
  • Near real-time stream processing with services like Kinesis, Flink, ECS, or EKS.
  • High-volume data processing with systems such as Ray or Spark.
• Strong fundamentals and experience with containers (Docker ecosystem), container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, ECS), and DAG orchestration tools (Airflow, Kubeflow, etc.).
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies and the software development life cycle, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Experience working at code level
• Strong soft skills, including presenting, negotiating, mentorship, and stakeholder management.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with recommendation and personalization systems.
• Strong soft skills, including presenting, negotiating, mentorship, and stakeholder management.

About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
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.
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About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.