Senior Backend Lead - Java/Kotlin, Fintech Platform

Testing Site - JPMC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase’s Accelerator team seeks a Sr Lead Software Engineer to turn smart ideas into customer-ready products. You’ll work in a collaborative, solution-focused squad and drive end-to-end software that scales across cloud-native platforms.

You’ll model domains, ensure secure, high-performance code, and mentor others while pushing for long-term, maintainable solutions in a fintech context.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Identifies problems, proposes solutions, and focuses on the best outcome.
• Contributes to the problem at hand, beyond own area of speciality.
• Desires to teach others and share knowledge, not hero-focused.
• Adapts quickly to changing priorities and complexity.
• Thinks long-term and chooses tech for end goals.
• Maintains high personal and team standards.

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 so that our customers and ourselves are protected 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, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems.
• Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.

Skills

Problem solving

Team player

Curious mindset

Teaching others

Adaptable to change

Strategic thinking

Education

Software engineering training

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Open source tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

JPMorgan Chase’s Accelerator team seeks a Sr Lead Software Engineer to turn smart ideas into customer-ready products. You’ll work in a collaborative, solution-focused squad and drive end-to-end software that scales across cloud-native platforms.

You’ll model domains, ensure secure, high-performance code, and mentor others while pushing for long-term, maintainable solutions in a fintech context.