Lead Software Engineer - Python, AWS

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking - Data Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve 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 break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in cloud-based environments
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods using Python and AWS tools
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Specialized in Python full stack development, web applications, microservices, and cloud technologies
• Proficiency in Python, Flask or Django, RESTful APIs, React JS, Typescript, AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, SQL, and AWS messaging services including SNS, SQS, or Kafka
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, integration methods, security, and RESTful APIs
• Experience with AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, IAM, as well as Terraform, Jenkins, Spinnaker or similar CI/CD tools, code coverage and quality tools, and GIT
• Strong working experience implementing web application security concepts, OAuth, and developing automated unit, integration, and performance tests