Android Lead Software Engineer

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 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