Senior Lead Software Engineer - Platform Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Join JPMorgan Chase as a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Payments Technology team. You'll drive innovation by designing and optimizing high-performance software systems that handle millions of transactions, ensuring security and regulatory compliance. This role requires significant technical expertise and a collaborative approach in a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Advanced in programming languages like Java and Python.
• Experience in distributed OLTP platform design.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement distributed data systems.
• Provide technical guidance and review code.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams for cloud deployment.

Skills

Cloud Native Experience

Distributed Databases Expertise

Programming (Java, Python, Go, C++)

API Development

Education

Computer Science Degree or Related Field

Tools

CockroachDB

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology team, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. You will design, develop, and optimize high-performance, distributed transactional data systems that power mission-critical financial applications. You will build scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency platforms that handle millions of transactions per second, ensuring data consistency, high availability, and regulatory compliance.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Architect and implement distributed OLTP platforms using CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server to support high-throughput transactional workloads.
• Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs for real-time transaction processing, ensuring efficient database interactions and minimal latency.
• Develop and maintain distributed data pipelines for handling event-driven transactions with Apache Kafka, MQ, or Kinesis.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps teams to deploy and monitor OLTP databases in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) using Kubernetes and containerized deployments.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Expertise in distributed relational databases such as CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
• Experience with RESTful API development, including best practices for database access, connection pooling, and API rate limiting.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or C++ for API development and data engineering tasks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience designing high-availability, multi-region OLTP architectures with active-active replication.
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL transactional databases like DynamoDB.
• Understanding of CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and event sourcing in OLTP systems.
• Prior experience in real-time payments, fraud detection, financial transaction processing.
• Deep understanding of CAP theorem, consistency models, distributed locking, and replication strategies.
• Strong knowledge of database security, access controls, encryption, and regulatory compliance.