Lead Software Engineer - Java, Spark, Kafka

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Bengaluru, IN

This is 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 JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms, you will be 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. You will be part of digital workflows team, focusing on our Telemetry Data Lake platform. You will play a key role in developing new features, supporting and enhancing our platform for clients, and ensuring best practices across the full software development lifecycle—including production deployments both on-premises and in AWS cloud environments. 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

  • Execute 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.
  • Contribute to the adoption of agile methodologies and participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Own and execute end-to-end SDLC best practices, including production deployments on-premises and in AWS.
  • Provide platform support and implement enhancements to improve client experience.
  • Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions.
  • Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse roles and teams.

 

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

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

  • Hands-on experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages which mandatorily includes Java, Python and strong SQL skills.
  • Demonstrates strong experience with Big data technologies like Kafka, spark and enterprise scale storage/database systems.

     

  • Advanced experience in at least two of the following:
    • Web application development
    • Databases, Big Data platforms, ETL processes
    • Unix/Linux environments
    • Distributed and parallel systems
    • Large-scale software development
  • Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Proficiency with development tools such as Jira, Jenkins, Git, and testing frameworks (Junit, Cucumber etc.).
  • Practical cloud native experience with AWS.

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Cloud certifications (AWS preferred).
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, Data platforms, Object storage, Iceberg and tools like Databricks, Snowflake, Trino, etc.
  • Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and developing frameworks to improve developer/release velocity and code health.

     

  • SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) mindset with good knowledge of infrastructure and deployment strategies 
  • Solid understanding of cloud technologies (preferably AWS), virtualization, APIs, and modern software languages.

 

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