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**Lead Software Engineer - Backend/Java/Cloud** provides leadership for backend development, driving scalable, secure, and reliable payment platforms using Java and cloud (AWS). Key responsibilities involve platform design, integration, and scaling, as well as team management and mentorship. Core skills required are 8+ years of software development experience, proficiency in core Java, handling RDBMS, Spring, and ORM (JPA/Hibernate), along with practical cloud (AWS) deployment and management. Experience in agile methodologies and testing frameworks is crucial. This senior-level role bridges technology and business to deliver market-leading products within Consumer & Community Banking at JPMorgan Chase.
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Location: Plano, TX, United States
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 JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking, 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 firms business objectives.
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
- Demonstrated proficiency in Artificial Intelligence(e.g., Co-Pilot, LLM)
- 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
- Practical experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in the cloud, utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and IAM for secure and resilient solutions.
- Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, ORM (JPA/Hibernate) and Unix Scripts
- 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 (JIRA, GIT, Bitbucket)
- Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit5 and Cucumber to design and build automated functional test suites
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience using NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack or H-Base) is a plus
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using modern DevOps tools and practices
- Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, or AWS CodePipeline.
- Experience with Java performance tuning, debugging, and profiling tools (JMeter, Blazemeter)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) for scalable deployments.
- Experience in streaming/aggregation frameworks (Storm, Spark) is a plus
- Strong background in application performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization using tools like Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or Grafana.



