Lead Software Engineer- DevOps

Lead Software Engineer

We are actively seeking a highly skilled and motivated software engineer to join our Engineering team with a focus on streamlining DevOps and automation. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank 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.

Working within the Limits Management team of Markets technology, the team is responsible for providing a robust multi-asset risk and control management platform that supports FICC and Equities trading activities. Through code and cloud infrastructure, you will configure, maintain, monitor, and optimize applications and their associated infrastructure to independently decompose and iteratively improve on existing solutions. You are a significant contributor to your team by sharing your knowledge of end-to-end operations, availability, reliability, and scalability of your application or platform.

Job Responsibilities

Writes high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested software to develop reliable and repeatable solutions to complex problems

Collaborates with product development teams to design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to support reliable, scalable, and efficient software delivery

Partners with product development teams to capture and define meaningful service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs)

Develops and maintains monitoring, alerting, and tracing systems that provide comprehensive visibility into system health and performance

Participates in design reviews to evaluate and strengthen architectural resilience, fault tolerance, and scalability

Upholds incident response management best practices, champions blameless postmortems, and continuous improvements

Debugs, tracks, and resolves complex technical issues to maintain system integrity and performance

Champions and drives the adoption of reliability, resiliency and software engineering best practices, leading by example

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

Experience building production-grade software in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, or Go

Experience in writing unit tests and integration tests using tools such as JUnit, Mockito, or PyTest

Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases

Proficient knowledge of distributed systems, and reliability patterns for achieving redundancy, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation

Proficient knowledge of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, and DNS

Proficient knowledge of Unix/Linux, including performance tuning, process and memory management, and filesystem operations

Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), such as Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, branching strategies and SemVer

Experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and supporting large-scale systems

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Proficient knowledge of Java with a strong understanding of the Java programming language, including object-oriented programming concepts, and the JVM

Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS or GCP, including deployment, management, and optimization of cloud-based applications

Experience working in the financial/fintech industry