Head of Cloud-Native Payments Engineering

JPMorgan Chase; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 331,000 - 447,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Palo Alto, CA, seeks a senior software engineering leader to drive the design, architecture, and deployment of large-scale cloud-native financial systems that process real-time, high-throughput payments.

You will mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure regulatory alignment, security, and reliability while delivering scalable cross-border payment solutions on AWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering with 7–10 years in leadership roles.
• Experience designing cloud-native financial apps and real-time payments systems.
• Proven ability to implement CI/CD and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design, architecture, and deployment of large-scale cloud-native financial systems.
• Lead and mentor engineers delivering real-time payments processing.
• Direct payments processing solutions, gateways, and ISO 20022 integrations.
• Architect data streaming with Kafka and Spark for low-latency processing.
• Implement enterprise-grade CI/CD, resiliency, and security controls.

Skills

Leading teams

Java Spring Boot

C++

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Apache Kafka

Spark

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS S3

AWS RDS

AWS Lambda

AWS EMR

AWS Step Functions

Apache Kafka

Spark

Java Spring Boot

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Palo Alto, CA, seeks a senior software engineering leader to drive the design, architecture, and deployment of large-scale cloud-native financial systems that process real-time, high-throughput payments.

You will mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure regulatory alignment, security, and reliability while delivering scalable cross-border payment solutions on AWS.