Senior Lead Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

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 Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Payment Processing Organization, 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.

Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities



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


* Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others


* 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


* 5+ years of working experience with distributed systems


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


* 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 functionality problems independently with little to no oversight


* Practical cloud native experience


* Strong understanding of non-functional requirements of distributed systems, including availability, fault tolerance, recoverability, latency, and resilience


* Proven experience building and operating distributed systems, including hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB)


* Experience with messaging systems such as Apache Kafka and modern event-driven architecture patterns


* Working knowledge of on-premises cloud infrastructure and at least one public cloud platform


* Strong understanding of system design for scale, with demonstrated experience in operating and supporting mission-critical systems as part of system operations (e.g., incident management, monitoring, capacity planning)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills



* Experience in t...