Lead Software Engineer - Java - Payment Tech Lead

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 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 (G...