Lead Software Engineer - Java - Payment Tech Lead
Company: JPMorganChase
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 3, 2026
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Job Description:
Description 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 Banking, Payment Tech, you will play a
critical role in building, automating, and optimizing robust
platforms that power our payment services. We seek proactive,
detail-oriented professionals with strong ownership, excellent
problem-solving skills, and the ability to deliver results under
pressure. You will collaborate across teams, communicate
effectively with stakeholders, and thrive in a fast-paced
environment, driving innovation and continuous improvement in our
platform and DevOps practices. Job responsibilities: Design,
implement, and maintain scalable and reliable payment technology
platforms. Collaborate with development and operations teams to
ensure seamless integration and delivery of new features and fixes.
Monitor system health, performance, and security, and proactively
address issues. Drive root cause analysis and implement solutions
to improve platform stability and reliability. Maintain and enhance
platform documentation, operational runbooks, and automation
scripts. Participate in change management, release management, and
disaster recovery planning. Ensure compliance with regulatory,
risk, and audit requirements. Mentor and manage a high-performance
delivery team, providing technical direction and ensuring high
quality deliverables. Ensure the team delivers timely key
milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements. Required
qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Formal training or
certification in Software Engineering and 5 years applied
experience 8 years of software development experience 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 Ability to
translate functional requirements to technical design and
requirements Perform code reviews, develop and review test
scenarios in collaboration with QA Strong experience in Core Java,
Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, ORM (JPA/Hibernate)
and Unix Scripts Experience in web development and modern JS
Frameworks (JavaScript, HTML 5, Ember, ReactJS or Angular)
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
Series) Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies
leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency
(JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint) Preferred
qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Experience in Cloud and
Container based development (Gaia, Kube) is a plus Experience using
NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack
or H-Base) is a plus Experience in streaming/aggregation frameworks
(Storm, Spark) is a plus Banking and payments domain background is
a plus Prefer hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities
Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and
deployment processes Automate infrastructure provisioning,
configuration, and monitoring using modern DevOps tools and
practices Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration,
microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring
Boot, Swagger) is a plus
Keywords: JPMorganChase, West Haven , Lead Software Engineer - Java - Payment Tech Lead, IT / Software / Systems , Jersey City, Connecticut
