Lead Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

Job Description

We have 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 JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology, you'll join our Performance Engineering team, where you can elevate your career in software testing. We're seeking a seasoned professional with 8+ years of experience in performance testing, engineering, and optimization. Your expertise in identifying bottlenecks, crafting test strategies, and enhancing system performance is crucial. This role requires a proactive team player who can collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems meet top performance and reliability standards.

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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
  
  

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
• Strong backend programming experience in Java/Go, Python and Shell Scripting
• Extensive experience in performance engineering, performance testing, or a related field.
• Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter, K6 and Gatling.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics. And, familiarity with Splunk for log analysis and monitorin
• Proficiency in Java and Java Spring Boot and Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Deep understanding of Developer Workflows and CI/CD process
  
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS/Azure/Google Cloud) is a plus
  
  

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