Lead Software Engineer - Payments Data Platform

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase, within the Commercial & Investment Bank – Digital and Platform Services, is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to contribute technically across multiple domains to build trusted market-leading technology in a secure, scalable environment.

You will design, develop, and review production code, mentor teams, and drive best practices in cloud-native AWS, Spring Boot, and CI/CD to advance the firm’s technology objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operations.
• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot development.
• Cloud-native AWS experience including EKS, DynamoDB, Lambda, OpenSearch.

Responsibilities

• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews peers' work.
• Designs and troubleshoots solutions beyond routine approaches.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation for stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and teams to assess architecture and fit.
• Leads communities of practice to promote new technologies across engineering teams.
• Adds to team culture with diversity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

CI/CD

Agile

Security

Leadership

Operational stability

Tools

AWS

EKS

DynamoDB

Lambda

OpenSearch

Spark

Databricks

Job 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 JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank – Digital and Platform Services line of business, 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. In this role, you will be a core technical contributor, 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, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Hands-on professional experience coding Java applications using Spring Boot
• Practical cloud native experience in AWS, like EKS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Opensearch
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer or Solutions Architect strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Core Java, Spring Framework, Python, Spark, Databricks