Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering (Sr. Director)

We know that people want great value combined with an excellent experience from a bank they can trust, so we launched our digital bank, Chase, to revolutionise mobile banking with seamless journeys that our customers love. We're already trusted by millions in the US and we're quickly catching up in the United Kingdom – but how we do things here is a little different. We're building the bank of the future from scratch, where you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact. 

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Back-End Engineer chapter at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be tasked with the creation and delivery of innovative, cutting-edge solutions through cloud-native microservices architecture applications. Utilizing the latest technologies and industry best practices, your role will encompass involvement in the design and architecture of complex solutions to roll innovative products out to market, as well as a focus on all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Our Back-End Engineering team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting a great banking experience into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are passionate about new technology. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in teams that focus on specific products and projects. Depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them and work in projects including fraud prevention, identity services, money transfers, debit and credit card payments, core banking, insurance products, reward campaigns, call-centre supporting innovations and more.

Job responsibilities:

• Deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices.
• Manage a growing team based in Bangalore, with responsibilities across several domains – whilst remaining hands-on and close to the code. Line management responsibilities include managing high-performing team leads.
• Ensure that technical designs and solutions meet our resiliency and scalability standards by guiding teams through the whole delivery lifecycle. Ultimately accountable for the designs and solutions rolled into production.
• Support the products you've built through their entire life cycle, including production and incident management.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Recent professional experience as a principal software engineer in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment. 
• Understanding of distributed systems including synchronous vs asynchronous communications, message serialization and schema evolution, idempotency, transactional boundaries, resiliency, etc.
• Ability to work and influence others in a collaborative environment, coaching other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.
• Experience in mentoring and developing junior engineers, providing guidance and support to help them grow in their careers.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a diverse, inclusive and geographically distributed team.
• Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs.
• Technically curious, versatile and solution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Understanding of distributed databases using modern replication strategies and consensus-led ACID behavior.
• Understanding of Kafka and strategies linked to event-based applications.
• Experience of Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies.

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