Lead Software Engineer - Platform & DevOps Engineer Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

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. 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. 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.

Requirements

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
Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, and Unix Scripts
Experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
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)
Hands-on experience with containerization, orchestration, and microservices frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger).
Experience with CI/CD tools and practices (Jenkins, GIT, JIRA, JUnit, Selenium, Lint).
Practical cloud native experience

Nice To Haves

Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube, AWS) is a plus
Familiarity with infrastructure as code and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet) is a plus.
Knowledge of Reactive programming (e.g., Spring Flux) is a plus.
Experience with NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack, or H-Base) is a plus.
Banking and payments domain experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable payment technology platforms.
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.
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.
Champion best practices in DevOps, automation, and platform engineering.

Benefits

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.

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