Lead Software Engineer
On-site · Palo Alto, California, United States
Palo Alto, California, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelNot SpecifiedInvestment BankingEnterprise
Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Not Specified
Company size
Enterprise
Industry
Investment Banking
Job Summary
Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase responsible for designing, developing, and evolving a highly scalable GraphQL platform across multiple teams. Drives platform strategy, observability standards, and automation of CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code. Leads engineering initiatives, mentors engineers, crafts developer-friendly experiences (APIs, tooling, documentation, integration patterns), and champions reliability, performance, and security within a financial-services context.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Proven leadership experience in mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions
- Advanced in one or more programming languages (Typescript, Go, Rust, Python, or similar)
- Deep hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh architectures
- Strong GraphQL architecture, schema design, and REST API principles
- Extensive experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
- Expert-level proficiency with Git/Bitbucket and distributed systems monitoring (e.g., Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies (CI/CD, resilience, security)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry IT systems
- Production experience architecting and scaling GraphQL platforms and cloud architectures (AWS)
- Experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS Fargate, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, X-Ray, ElastiCache-Redis, RDS Aurora Postgres, MSK, KMS)
- Ability to design and evaluate architectural trade-offs and drive platform reliability and developer productivity
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