Lead Software Engineer - Java - Payment Tech Lead
JPMorganChase
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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
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 and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team