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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
Skills Required
- 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 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 and setting team validation standards for AI outputs
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows and experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage are comprehensive, with on-site clinics, preventive care, and specialized supports such as maternity nurse guidance and fertility treatments. Wellness activities can help offset copays and out-of-pocket costs, reinforcing the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching and additional automatic pay credits reflect strong employer-backed retirement savings. An employee stock purchase plan and related financial programs further bolster long-term financial support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick time, holidays, and generous parental leave are provided alongside family medical leave and adoption/fertility assistance. Additional programs like caregiver support and volunteer time off expand the breadth of time-away options.
JPMorganChase Insights
What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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