Lead Software Engineer- Payments Tech Lead –Java

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Lead Software Engineer to solve business problems through innovation and solid engineering practices.

You will guide teams through the full software development lifecycle, mentor engineers, and drive end-to-end delivery in a collaborative environment that values experimentation and continuous learning. The role emphasizes leadership by example, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration with architects, production management, business analysts,

Qualifications

• 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).
• Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint)
• Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
• Hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities

Skills

Core Java

Object Oriented

SQL

Spring

Hibernate/JPA

Unix Scripts

Frontend JS

Tools

JIRA

Jenkins

Git

JUnit

Selenium

Lint

Docker

Kubernetes

Swagger

Job description

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology Group, you will be responsible for solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices., we look first and foremost for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

The candidate will lead his team by example with a passion to tackle complex problems and develop innovative solutions, attain a self-motivated pro-active attitude, inquisitiveness, and eagerness to learn, demonstrate ownership with the drive to troubleshoot issues methodically, and deliver under pressure. A successful candidate will have experience managing a structured and agile software development lifecycle, mentoring, training, and motivating his team, partnering effectively, and planning cross-dependencies across the organization with technology leads, architects, production management, business analysts, and quality assurance groups.

Job Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
• Hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 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)
• Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint)
• Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube) is a plus
• Experience using NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack or H-Base) is a plus
• Experience in streaming/aggregation frameworks (Storm, Spark) is a plus
• Banking and payments domain background is a plus