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Lead Software Engineer- Payments Tech Lead –Java

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Jersey City, NJ
Senior level
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Jersey City, NJ
Senior level
Leads a payments technology software engineering team, providing technical direction, mentoring, architecture oversight, code reviews, and end-to-end delivery. Partners with technology leads, product owners, architects, QA, and business stakeholders to manage roadmaps, dependencies, requirements, testing, and production-quality outcomes. The role requires hands-on Java development and experience building secure, highly available, scalable systems using modern web, messaging, database, containerization, and agile delivery technologies.
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments Technology Group, you will be responsible for solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices., we look first and foremost for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.


The candidate will lead his team by example with a passion to tackle complex problems and develop innovative solutions, attain a self-motivated pro-active attitude, inquisitiveness, and eagerness to learn, demonstrate ownership with the drive to troubleshoot issues methodically, and deliver under pressure.   A successful candidate will have experience managing a structured and agile software development lifecycle, mentoring, training, and motivating his team, partnering effectively, and planning cross-dependencies across the organization with technology leads, architects, production management, business analysts, and quality assurance groups.

Job Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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
  • Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
  • Hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • 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)
  • Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger) is a plus
  • Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint)
  • Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements

Preferred qualifications

  • 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

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 TeamJ.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. 

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