Lead Software Engineer - Core Java Lead; Tech

Lead Software Engineer - Core Java Lead (Payments Tech) Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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.

As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develop secure high‑quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Lead 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.
• Mentor and manage a high‑performance delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high quality deliverables.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading‑edge technologies.
• Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA.
• Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements.
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• 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.
• Plan and manage scrum teams, including facilitating Agile ceremonies, prioritizing backlogs, and supporting team delivery and collaboration.
• Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements.
• Strong experience in Core Java, Object‑Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, and Unix Scripts.
• 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).
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint).

• Practical cloud native experience.
• Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube, AWS) is a plus.
• Knowledge of container‑based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus.
• Experience optimizing No
  
  SQL / Big Data Stores (Cassandra) is a plus.
• Knowledge of Reactive programming (Spring Flux) is a plus.
• Banking and payments domain background is a plus.

JPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role,…