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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Payments - Kinexys 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

Lead an engineering team to deliver assigned scope, or operate as a senior individual contributor depending on program needs.Own end-to-end solution design and implementation for microservices and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.Produce clear High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents; ensure traceability from requirements to implementation.Guide and mentor junior engineers: code reviews, technical coaching, best practices.Collaborate with product, architecture, and operations to plan releases, manage dependencies, and de-risk delivery.Contribute to cloud-ready architecture and deployment patterns; partner on AWS/Azure implementations where applicable.Drive continuous improvement in process, tooling, and platform capabilities; address production issues with a focus on resiliency.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 problemsDevelops 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

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experienceExpert proficiency in Java and Spring Boot: Building RESTful services, microservices, and API-first designs, dependency injection, configuration management, modular design, Performance tuning, concurrency, memory managementStrong experience designing complex distributed systems and documenting HLD/LLD.Hands-on experience with automated testing (unit, integration, contract) and CI/CD pipelines.Solid understanding of data stores (relational and/or NoSQL), schema design, transactions, and query optimization. Databases like :Postgres , MySql , Oracle , MongoDBDemonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Practical cloud native experience

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Banking/payments domain knowledge (e.g., authorization, clearing/settlement, transaction processing, reconciliation, ISO 20022 standards , Different payment channels like Swift/pain/MX). Knowledge in Blockchain/Ethereum solidity programming language is good to have.Cloud knowledge on AWS or Azure (compute, storage, networking, IAM/security); familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) is a plus.Kotlin experience or knowledge; ability to read/write Kotlin and understand Java interoperability.Experience with messaging/event streaming (e.g., Kafka), caching, and resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries, timeouts).