Senior Lead Software Engineer - FX Payments Processing

Job Description

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Corporate Investment Bank Payments, 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.

• 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 firm‑wide 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
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI‑assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proven delivery leadership for cross‑border FX initiatives, owning scope, plan, risks/dependencies, and release readiness end‑to‑end
• Hands‑on engineering experience building/owning production services in Java, including code reviews and production support
• Strong CI/CD and automation experience (build/test/deploy pipelines; quality gates; release workflows)
• Solid data + cloud fundamentals: database storage/modeling concepts and AWS/Azure deployment fundamentals
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted software development tools within the work environment, with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls
• 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)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

• Direct experience with FX processing in a payments environment
• Demonstrated ability to run stakeholder and UAT execution
• Experience applying AI/automation to speed delivery
• Experience working within a formal delivery lifecycle (SDLC/SDIC) and regulated change controls

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual…