Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase 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. 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.

Job responsibilities

• Architect, design, and implement complex back-end services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot, making informed technical trade-offs to ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Optimize and design advanced database solutions with Oracle, including data modeling, query optimization, and transaction management.

• Integrate and manage messaging systems such as MQ and Kafka for robust, fault-tolerant data flow across distributed systems.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering best practices in coding, design, and system architecture.

• Drive code reviews, troubleshooting, and performance tuning for large-scale, high-throughput payment systems.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions aligned with business goals.

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools to continuously improve our platform.

• Comply with security, regulatory, and operational standards throughout the software lifecycle.

• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Expert-level proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with a deep understanding of object-oriented design and enterprise patterns.

• Extensive experience architecting and building large-scale, distributed systems in a payments or financial services environment.

• Advanced knowledge of Oracle databases, including performance tuning and complex query design.

• Strong experience with MQ and Kafka, including designing resilient messaging architectures.

• Proven track record of making technical trade-offs and decisions in complex environments.

• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) 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 engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices