Payments Data Platform Lead Software Engineer

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As a Payments Data Platform Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Data Analytics Payment 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

• 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 problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Designs, develops, and maintains RESTful APIs and microservices that support business-critical workflows and integrations
• Owns full software development lifecycle — from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
• Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines, automated testing suites, and deployment automation to ensure rapid, reliable releases
• Collaborates with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and deliver scalable solutions
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• 3+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack software engineering
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring framework, and OpenSource technologies and experience with Python, Go, or Node.js
• Hands-on experience designing and building RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tooling
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated 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

• Familiarity with AI agentic development patterns (LLM integration, prompt engineering, tool orchestration) and frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or ADK
• Frontend development experience with ReactJS and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems
• Experience with API gateway patterns, GraphQL, messaging platforms (Kafka, SQS), or gRPC 
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), observability practices, and cloud service provisioning