Lead Software Engineer - Core Java/DevOps, Automation Platform

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.
• 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.

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
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 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.