Lead Java Engineer – Payments Platform & DevOps

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and optimize payments platforms. You will lead a delivery team, drive DevOps practices, and collaborate across teams to ship features with reliability and security.

The role requires 8+ years in software development, strong Java, Spring, and cloud/containers experience, plus a hands-on, end-to-end delivery mindset in a fast-paced financial tech environment.

Qualifications

• 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).

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.

Skills

Core Java

Object Oriented

SQL

Oracle

Spring

Hibernate/JPA

Unix Scripting

JavaScript

React

Ember

Angular

JIRA

Jenkins

Git

Selenium

Kafka

MQ Series

Cloud / Containers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Software Engineering Certification

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Boot

Swagger

Kafka

MQ Series

JIRA

Jenkins

Git

JUnit

Selenium

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and optimize payments platforms. You will lead a delivery team, drive DevOps practices, and collaborate across teams to ship features with reliability and security.

The role requires 8+ years in software development, strong Java, Spring, and cloud/containers experience, plus a hands-on, end-to-end delivery mindset in a fast-paced financial tech environment.