SENIOR LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER - PLATFORM ARCHITECT

JPMorganChase; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Palo Alto, California. The role drives significant business impact by designing high-performance distributed data systems for payment technologies, overseeing the delivery of secure and scalable solutions while mentoring technical teams. Candidates should have advanced programming skills with at least 5 years in software engineering.

Qualifications

• 5 years of applied experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience with system design and operational stability.
• Expertise in distributed relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality production code and provide technical direction.
• Drive decisions influencing product design and application functionality.
• Architect and implement distributed OLTP platforms.

Skills

APIs

Spring

.NET

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

IaaS

AWS

Solution Architecture

Cloud Architecture

PaaS

Java

Azure

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

CockroachDB

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

SQL Server

Apache Kafka

MQ

Kinesis

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team thats 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.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

APIs,Spring,.NET,DevOps,Cloud Infrastructure,IaaS,AWS,Solution Architecture,Cloud Architecture,PaaS,Java,Azure

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 171000 - 260000

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