Lead Software Engineer - Virtual Card

Job Description
Elevate your career and embark on an exciting journey where you can redefine the boundaries of innovation. If you're passionate about shaping the future of technology by driving innovation, fostering collaboration and making a significant impact in the financial services industry, we want you to join our fun and forward-thinking team.
Join us as a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Commercial Card Technology team, and be part of a dynamic group that creates groundbreaking, high-quality solutions. You'll play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. As part of JPMC's Commercial Card Business, we offer our corporate clients unique Commercial Credit Card Payment products, solutions, and capabilities. As a key technical contributor, you'll drive critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting the firm's strategic business goals.
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, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Expert in Java programming, with extensive experience in Java Spring Boot and Spring Batch.
• Proficient in RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Unix Shell Scripts, and cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Proven experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Strong understanding of Event-Driven Architecture, Application Resiliency Patterns, API Security, and CI/CD processes (e.g., Jenkins, JFrog, Spinnaker).
• Skilled in architecting secure, scalable systems using clustering, load balancing, and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, MQ Series, AWS SQS, SNS).
• Hands-on architect with a passion for mentoring software engineers, balancing leadership and coding responsibilities
• Proficient in Agile methodology and experienced with SDLC tools (e.g., JIRA, GIT, JUnit, Selenium).
• Ability to independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Banking and Payments domain background
• Experienced in deployment models and strategies to rollout upgrades to AWS applications
• Experienced in Observability and Monitoring Tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenSearch, Grafana, Datadog)

About Us
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.
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. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
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.