Payments Tech Lead Software Engineer - Java

Company: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 1, 2026

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 Corporate Investment Bank’s 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 Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 5 years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience. Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, and Unix Scripts. 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 Banking and payments domain background Familiarity with container-based development, orchestration, and microservices frameworks and tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, and Swagger is advantageous. Experience with NoSQL/Big Data Stores, particularly Cassandra, is a plus. Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube)

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