Lead Software Engineer - Android Lead

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As an Android Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking , 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: - Provides regular 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 - Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness. - 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. - 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, 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 - Expertise in one or more programming language(s), including Java and Kotlin - Expertise in developing test driven Android mobile application features using Jetpack, RxJava, and Retrofit, ensuring code adheres to industry coding best practices - Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security. - Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices. - Experienced in designing and implementing Android user interfaces using both Jetpack Compose and XML-based layouts for responsive and maintainable applications. - Demonstrated hands-on experience developing, testing, and debugging mobile applications using Android Studio, including proficiency in building user interfaces, integrating APIs, and optimizing app performance for Android devices - Utilize modern Android development tools and frameworks, including ViewModel, LiveData/StateFlow, Dagger, Coroutines, MVVM/MVI architecture, Navigation Component, Retrofit, OkHttp, Gradle, and testing frameworks such as JUnit, Espresso, and Mockito, to build robust, maintainable, and scalable applications. - Communicate resolution & next steps. 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. - Ability to work 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. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills: - Experience with GraphQL - Experience working in financial services industry - Experience working with AWS and related systems - 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. - Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)