Lead Software Engineer - Backend/java/cloud

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Plano, TX +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Lead Software Engineer role focused on designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable payment technology platforms in a cloud environment. The role involves collaboration, system monitoring, root cause analysis, mentoring a team, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Requires strong Java, cloud (AWS), and Agile experience, with a demonstrated proficiency in AI tools like Co-Pilot and LLMs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable payment technology platforms.
  2. Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of new features and fixes.
  3. Monitor system health, performance, and security, and proactively address issues.
  4. Drive root cause analysis and implement solutions to improve platform stability and reliability.
  5. Maintain and enhance platform documentation, operational runbooks, and automation scripts.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and 5+ years applied experience
  • 8+ years of software development experience
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Artificial Intelligence(e.g., Co-Pilot, LLM)
  • 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
  • Practical experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in the cloud, utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and IAM for secure and resilient solutions.
  • Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, ORM (JPA/Hibernate) 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 (JIRA, GIT, Bitbucket)
  • Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit5 and Cucumber to design and build automated functional test suites

Nice to have

  • Experience using NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack or H-Base) is a plus
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using modern DevOps tools and practices
  • Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, or AWS CodePipeline.
  • Experience with Java performance tuning, debugging, and profiling tools (JMeter, Blazemeter)
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) for scalable deployments.
  • Experience in streaming/aggregation frameworks (Storm, Spark) is a plus
  • Strong background in application performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization using tools like Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or Grafana.

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of software development experience
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, and audit requirements.