Lead Software Engineer - Java, React, Kafka

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Payments Technology, 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 hands-on leader driving the RTP product through the full SDLC—design, development, testing, readiness, and production rollout—while maintaining high bars for architecture, code quality, automation, and release rigor.
 

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
• 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 applied experience
• Hands-on proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Core, React, and JUnit; demonstrated commitment to secure, scalable code and rigorous reviews.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using MQ/Kafka and caching layers (Redis, GemFire).
• Proven Agile delivery leadership: facilitation of ceremonies, backlog stewardship, Jira-based tracking, and Confluence-based documentation/decision logs.
• Strong architectural fundamentals with design patterns and principles; disciplined attention to detail, rapid issue resolution, and clear written communication in Confluence.
• Cloud and platform experience: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform; ability to set non-functional targets and lead operational excellence for real-time payment services.
• Stakeholder management experience with Product, BA, UAT, and Production Management; excellent communication skills across audiences.

• Payments domain background, ideally in real-time/instant payments, with a deep understanding of low-latency, high-availability design for 24x7 platforms.
• Advanced experience with AWS services for containerized workloads and high-throughput messaging; Terraform module design and environment automation patterns.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM-enabled development workflows and responsible integration into day-to-day engineering for productivity and quality gains.