Principal Software Engineer - Design Authority, Digital Self-Service

Job Description
If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you've come to the right place.
As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Merchant Services, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm's portfolios.
Job responsibilities

• Own and drive the overall technical design vision for the Commerce Center portal, ensuring alignment with business and technical goals.
• Lead the technical design review process, serving as the accountable decision-maker for solution architecture and design proposals.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of functional and non-functional requirements, design rationale, and architectural decisions.
• Champion the creation of simple, reusable, and resilient micro front end components and architectural patterns to drive scalability, usability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with domain experts and cross-functional teams, including the Design Guild, to ensure robust solutions across UI, React, Micro Front Ends, Single-SPA, AWS hosting, and API integrations.
• Facilitate structured implementation reviews to verify delivery against agreed-upon designs and architecture.
• Advise and mentor engineering teams on technical design, architecture, and best practices for distributed, cloud-native systems.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on large scale technology program concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• Proven expertise in solution architecture, system design, and technical leadership for large-scale, distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud-native technologies and AWS hosting, including deployment, monitoring, and operational stability.
• Deep understanding of Single-SPA, micro front end patterns, and backend-for-frontend (BFF) architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain comprehensive design documentation and architectural artifacts.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving consensus on technical decisions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices in AWS.
• Deep understanding of accessibility, usability, and resilient design principles for web applications.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience as a Design Authority, Principal Engineer, or Solution Architect in a large enterprise or financial services environment.
• Prior experience with customer-facing portals or payment systems. Familiarity with secure API integration and interfacing with external datasets and services.
• Experience with technical design guilds, technical communities of practice, or similar collaborative design forums.
• Prior leadership in driving adoption of reusable components and architectural standards across multiple teams.

About Us
JPMorganChase, 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, 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 achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.