Lead Software Engineer - Mobile Android

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Android at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a key technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing vital technology solutions across diverse technical domains within various business functions, all in support of the firm's strategic objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Builds and deploys production-grade native Android Mobile applications to solve various business use cases for the firm.
• Provides overall direction, oversight, training, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks.
• Takes accountability for decisions that influence teams’ resources, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures.
• Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
• Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary.
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team.
Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritize diverse representation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Practical Mobile native experience with expert knowledge in all phases of the mobile app development life cycle.
• Use of frameworks and APIs like Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Dagger/Hilt for Dependency Injection, and experience in using Android Studio tools like Layout Inspector, Memory Profiler, and CPU Profiler.
• Strong experience with Data Structures, Type Conversions, Multi-Threading. Experience with clean architecture & one or more design patterns – MVVM, MVI, MVP, Singleton.
• Enthusiasm for automated testing and experience with unit testing frameworks.
• Understanding of build systems such as Gradle, Jenkins, or similar systems.
• Worked in an Agile development environment and well-versed with agile ceremonies.
• Experience working with API integration, distributed systems, monitoring, caching, and persistence solutions.
• Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence, customer-focused mindset, taking pride in creating an informative data-driven journey.