Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java

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As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank''s Payments Technology group, you play a vital role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market‑leading technology products with a focus on security, stability, and scalability. As a key technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm''s strategic goals.

• 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
• Manage the delivery for two scrum teams
• Be a hands‑on coding tech lead minimum 50% of the time
• 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

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Advanced knowledge in Java on Spring Boot programming language
• Must have advanced knowledge in reactive programming technology Web Flux
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle, software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices
• 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.)
• Hands on experience working with high throughput, low latency distributed systems ensuring efficient communication and integration between different systems
• Proven record of providing end‑user support with excellent problem‑solving abilities

• 10+ years of experience in Java Development
• On‑prem and/or public cloud knowledge is a bonus
• Cockroach or Cassandra database knowledge is a bonus