Senior Lead Software Engineer - Staff Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Merchant Services, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

 

Job responsibilities

• Own and drive the overall technical design vision for the Commerce Center portal, ensuring alignment with business and technical goals.
• Lead the technical design review process, serving as the accountable decision-maker for solution architecture and design proposals.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of functional and non-functional requirements, design rationale, and architectural decisions.
• Champion the creation of simple, reusable, and resilient micro front end components and architectural patterns to drive scalability, usability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with domain experts and cross-functional teams, including the Design Guild, to ensure robust solutions across UI, React, Micro Front Ends, Single-SPA, AWS hosting, and API integrations.
• Facilitate structured implementation reviews to verify delivery against agreed-upon designs and architecture.
• Advise and mentor engineering teams on technical design, architecture, and best practices for distributed, cloud-native systems.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proven expertise in solution architecture, system design, and technical leadership for large-scale, distributed systems
• Hands-on expertise with cloud-native technologies and AWS hosting, including deployment, monitoring, and operational stability
• Deep understanding of Single-SPA, micro front end patterns, and backend-for-frontend (BFF) architectures
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain comprehensive design documentation and architectural artifacts
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving consensus on technical decisions
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices in AWS
• Deep understanding of accessibility, usability, and resilient design principles for web applications
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

 Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience as a Design Authority, Staff/Principal Engineer, or Solution Architect in a large enterprise or financial services environment
• Prior experience with customer-facing portals or payment systems. Familiarity with secure API integration and interfacing with external datasets and services
• Experience with technical design guilds, technical communities of practice, or similar collaborative design forums
• Prior leadership in driving adoption of reusable components and architectural standards across multiple teams

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 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 benefit