Lead Software Engineer - API Platform

About the position

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking API Marketplace 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.

Responsibilities

• Leads sessions with internal teams to drive optimal usage of tools and gateway configuration to ensure customer success
• 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
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Identifies and measures application SLAs, customer journeys and tool usage
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineers concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud native experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Strong problem-solving skills with a high level of accountability
• Experience with API Management Platform such as Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Kong, or Spring cloud gateway
• Experience in development, deployment strategies and support of REST and GraphQL API interfaces

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Identity and Access management services
• Experience in networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTPS) and CDN technologies
• Experience in incident management and improving MTTx metrics