Lead Software Engineer, Payments Technology

Jpmorganchase; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Sydney is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the APAC Payments Production Management team within CIB Technology. You will be a core technical contributor, building, delivering and supporting trusted market-leading software in a secure, scalable environment.

In an agile setting, you will tackle real-time payment platforms across Australia and regional markets, applying AI-assisted engineering to boost code quality, delivery speed, and incident management while ensuring

Qualifications

• Autonomy and ownership with minimal supervision.
• Industry knowledge of financial services is useful.
• Experience with real-time, cross-border and payment products is beneficial.
• Familiarity with Australia payments systems: NPP, BECS, RBA RITS RTGS; APAC schemes.
• Knowledge of ISO 20022 and scheme SLAs/cutoffs.
• Experience in 24x7 production environments and incident management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and develops techniques to troubleshoot complex problems.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and conducts code reviews and debugging.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality, speed, and operations.
• Applies SDLC tools and AI-assisted automation to increase value and efficiency.
• Identifies and automates recurring issues to improve stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions on architecture designs and applicability to existing systems.
• Oversees production incidents with prompt engagement and clear communication across teams.
• Gains practical cloud-native experience.

Skills

Autonomy

Ownership

Financial services

Real-time payments

Cross-border payments

High-value payments

Low-value payments

NPP

BECS

RBA RITS RTGS

ISO 20022

SLAs

24x7 production

Incident management

Job description

Description

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 Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Technology on the APAC Payments Production Management team based in Sydney youare an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, delive r and support 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 and development to assist technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Oversee production technology incidents, ensuring prompt engagement, escalation, and clear communication with business, technology and operation partners
• Practical cloud native experience
  

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ability to work with limited supervision; strong ownership and autonomy.
• General knowledge of the financial services industry.
• Practical experience related to real-time payments, cross-border, high-value and low-value payment products (domestically within Australia and/or other international markets).
• Exposure to Australia’s payments systems (NPP, BECS, RBA RITS RTGS) and similar APAC schemes.
• ISO 20022 familiarity and understanding of scheme SLAs/cutoffs.
• Exposure to 24x7 production environments and the incident management lifecycle is a plus.