Lead Backend Engineer – FinTech Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Lead Software Engineer for the Accelerator team to bring smart fintech ideas to customers. You will thrive in collaborative squads, focus on scalable, secure code, and evolve architectures to support real-world problems.

You are a motivated problem solver who believes in teaching others and moving fast with quality. This role emphasizes customer-centric innovation within a diverse, people-first culture.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Identifies problems, proposes solutions, and acts as a problem solver.
• Contributes beyond their own area of specialty.
• Desire to teach others and share knowledge; strong team player.
• Adapts quickly to changing priorities and complexity.
• Thinks long-term and selects technologies based on end goals.
• Maintains high personal and team standards and trust.
• Takes initiative and shapes their own path with pragmatic, iterative approaches.

Responsibilities

• Use domain modeling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.
• Develop secure code to protect customers and ourselves from malicious actors.
• Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
• See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
• Keep an eye on performance and use the right approach to solve problems.
• Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Continuously updating our technologies and patterns.

Skills

Problem solving

Team player

Adaptability

Initiative

Quality focus

Education

Software engineering fundamentals

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Lead Software Engineer for the Accelerator team to bring smart fintech ideas to customers. You will thrive in collaborative squads, focus on scalable, secure code, and evolve architectures to support real-world problems.

You are a motivated problem solver who believes in teaching others and moving fast with quality. This role emphasizes customer-centric innovation within a diverse, people-first culture.