
Lead Software Engineer - Java, Payments
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 15 days ago
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Lead Software Engineer on the Payments Processing team responsible for designing, developing, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable payment systems. Acts as a core technical contributor and technical lead, building production-quality Java/React/Spring Boot/Kafka solutions while driving automation, CI/CD, resiliency, and operational stability. Leads evaluations with vendors and internal teams, mentors engineering communities of practice, and helps shape architecture across multiple technical areas. Requires hands-on cloud-native experience and domain knowledge of banking or payments.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Tampa
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Location: Tampa, FL, 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 JPMorganChase within the Payments Processing 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. 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
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Experience as a technical lead with Java, React, Springboot, Kafka
- Experience within a Banking and/or Payments environment
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills- Experience with AWS
- Experience managing teams
- Experience with Oracle or other databases
Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team





