Lead Software Engineer - Payments Processing

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 Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Processing group, you will play a pivotal role within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Payments Technology group.

You will be an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for executing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting the firm's strategic business objectives.

Job responsibilities


* Execute creative software solutions, encompassing design, development, and technical troubleshooting.

Leverage your ability to think beyond conventional approaches to build innovative solutions and deconstruct complex technical problems


* Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors


* Develop secure, high-quality production code, and conduct thorough reviews and debugging of code written by peers to ensure adherence to best practices and security standards


* 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, equity, inclusion, and respect


* Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams.

Drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for integration within existing systems and information architecture


* Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate the remediation of recurring issues, thereby enhancing the overall operational stability of software applications and systems

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



* Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with 5+ years of applied experience in software development


* Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


* Advanced skills in one or more programming languages, particularly Python, with a strong emphasis on writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code


* Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)


* Ability to tackle design and function...