Android Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Digital Mobile team, you are 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. 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

• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• 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
• Creates informative data promotion journey with a customer-focused mindset
• Work with mobile application team to setup monitoring and resolve production issues/crashes on mobile devices. Assist with troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and ensure that software bugs are corrected in an expedient manner
• Hands on with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, RxJava, LiveData, mobile UI fundamentals (from layout to animations), and RESTful API integration
• Performs unit and functional testing utilizing libraries lsuch as Mockito and Espresso
• Leverages experience with distributed systems, caching, and persistence solutions
• Applies understanding of architectural patterns such as MVP and MVVM, and application design patterns (Gang of Four)
• Utilizes understanding of build and CI systems such as Gradle and Jenkins

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
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Advanced coding in Kotlin in an agile environment
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Hands on experience with Restful API integration
• Experience working with RxJava, LiveData or State Flows
• Experience in Unit testing libraries like Mockito, JUnit, Gherkin scripts for UI test automation
• Strong understanding of Android ecosystem and all mobile UI fundamentals from layout to animations

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with mobile testing in areas like unit test, automation test, testing/debugging using emulator and device including experience with mobile application profiling for memory analysis, thread analysis and heap analysis on devices, emulators and simulators
• Experience working with large codebases, managing shared resources and libraries and involvement in the ongoing development one or more mobile applications available in Apple's App Store or Google’s Play Store
• Familiarity with Agile development including daily scrum and weekly iteration reviews and planning
• Experience with Unit Testing frameworks
• Experience with Android jetpack, Kotlin Coroutines
• Understanding of SOLID principles and architectural patterns such as MVP, MVI and MVVM
• Experience with data injection tools, such as Dagger, Hilt, Kotlin, etc

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.