Full Stack Senior Lead Software 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 JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & investment Bank, Real time Payments 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. 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

• Regularly provides 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
• 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, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and Java Spring Framework.
• Proven expertise in architecting and building low-latency, high-throughput enterprise applications.
• Experience in developing and maintaining distributed systems capable of handling high volumes of data and transactions, with a strong understanding of consistency and availability trade-offs.
• Proficiency in building cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Hands-on experience in developing and deploying complex systems with high scalability requirements.
• Expertise in performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, enterprise-grade APIs, and streaming platforms like Kafka.
• Proficiency in building enterprise-grade UI/UX using Angular or React.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience in leading teams of technologists and the ability to work on large, mission-critical platforms.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in implementing distributed caching solutions, with advanced knowledge of Gemfire, Redis, Hazelcast, or other caching solutions being a plus.
• Previous experience in building payment processing systems and protocols is advantageous.

 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT:

This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.

 

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 benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation an