Lead Software Engineer - Java - Payment Tech Lead

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking, Payment Tech, you will play a critical role in building, automating, and optimizing robust platforms that power our payment services. We seek proactive, detail-oriented professionals with strong ownership, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to deliver results under pressure. You will collaborate across teams, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, driving innovation and continuous improvement in our platform and DevOps practices.

Job responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable payment technology platforms.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of new features and fixes.
• Monitor system health, performance, and security, and proactively address issues.
• Drive root cause analysis and implement solutions to improve platform stability and reliability.
• Maintain and enhance platform documentation, operational runbooks, and automation scripts.
• Participate in change management, release management, and disaster recovery planning.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, and audit requirements.
• Mentor and manage a high-performance delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high quality deliverables.
• Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Clarify and defend architecture and design decisions and ensure they are practical and feasible to implement by the team
• Partner with technology peers and product owners and lead collaborative efforts to ensure a successful end-to-end project delivery
• Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
• Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, ORM (JPA/Hibernate) and Unix Scripts
• Experience in web development and modern JS Frameworks (JavaScript, HTML 5, Ember, ReactJS or Angular)
• Experience in architecting and building secure, highly available, resilient, scalable systems leveraging clustering and load balancing of web/app servers and messaging systems (Kafka / MQ Series)
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint)

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube) is a plus
• Experience using NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack or H-Base) is a plus
• Experience in streaming/aggregation frameworks (Storm, Spark) is a plus
• Banking and payments domain background is a plus
• Prefer hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using modern DevOps tools and practices
• Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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