Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Chicago, IL, United States • 2d ago

Job responsibilities

Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Build and operate 24x7, tier‑1 online services

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Strong core engineering skills: hands‑on coding and system design for modern enterprise systems.
Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Rust, Java, Go, C++
Proven track record building and operating 24x7, tier‑1 online services.
Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
Familiarity with open‑source projects in the OLAP/data stack: Apache DataFusion, DuckDB, Apache Arrow Flight SQL.