
Lead Software Engineer - Core Java Lead (Payments Tech)
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 17 days ago
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you will lead and contribute to the design, development, and delivery of secure, scalable payments systems. You will mentor and manage a high-performance agile team, drive architecture and code quality, and collaborate with product owners, vendors, and peers to ensure successful end-to-end delivery. The role requires strong Core Java, Spring, RDBMS, messaging (Kafka/MQ) and operational stability focus, including automation and resilient system design.
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Full Job Description
Location: Jersey City, NJ, 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 Commercial & Investment Bank, 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 firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities:
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Mentor and manage a high-performance delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high quality deliverables
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
- Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience.
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- 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
- Planning and managing scrum teams, including facilitating Agile ceremonies, prioritizing backlogs, and supporting team delivery and collaboration.
- Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements
- Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, 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)
- 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:
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube, AWS) is a plus
- Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus
- Experience optimizing NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra) is a plus
- Knowledge of Reactive programming (Spring Flux) is a plus
- Banking and payments domain background is a plus




