Android Lead Software Engineer

Description

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Chase Android Authentication 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 breakdown technical problems

Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development

Gathers, analyses, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems

Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting

Writes secure and high-quality code using Java, MVVM, Dagger, RxJava, and Kotlin

Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications

Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills in order to code and develop secure and stable systems

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

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

Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.

Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

Strong hands on coding experience working with (Android jetpack, Kotlin Coroutines, Restful API integration, RxJava, LiveData, and/or State flows)

Experience in Unit testing libraries like Mockito, JUnit, Gherkin scripts for UI Test Automation

Experience with data injection tools (Dagger, Hilt, Kotlin, etc.)

Technical leadership experience with junior level Software Engineers

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with Java and Android eco system and all mobile UI fundamentals from layout to animations

Understanding of SOLID principles and architectural patterns such as MVP, MVI and MVVM