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Lead Software Engineer - Java/Payments
JPMC
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Job Description 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 JPMorganChase within the CIB / Payments Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to design, build, and support reliable, scalable payment applications. The ideal candidate has strong Java experience, including reactive programming, and can design & develop cloud-native, event-driven services using AWS and Kafka. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. You will also help identify practical ways to apply AI capabilities to payment products and engineering workflows. Job Responsibilities Design, develop, test, and maintain payment applications and services using Java and reactive programming frameworks such as Spring WebFlux or Project Reactor. Build event-driven services and streaming workflows with Apache Kafka. Develop, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications on AWS. Contribute to secure, resilient payment processing, including transaction lifecycle, authorization, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling. Create and maintain RESTful APIs and service integrations. Apply engineering practices such as automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD, observability, and performance tuning. Partner with product, architecture, operations, risk, and other engineering teams to deliver payment capabilities. Explore and implement appropriate AI-enabled solutions, such as intelligent exception handling, anomaly detection, developer productivity tools, or payment operations support. Design, develop, test, and maintain payment applications and services using Java and reactive programming frameworks such as Spring WebFlux or Project Reactor. Build event-driven services and streaming workflows with Apache Kafka. Develop, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications on AWS. Contribute to secure, resilient payment processing, including transaction lifecycle, authorization, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling. Create and maintain RESTful APIs and service integrations. Apply engineering practices such as automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD, observability, and performance tuning. Partner with product, architecture, operations, risk, and other engineering teams to deliver payment capabilities. Explore and implement appropriate AI-enabled solutions, such as intelligent exception handling, anomaly detection, developer productivity tools, or payment operations support. Support production services, investigate incidents, and contribute to root-cause analysis and service improvements. Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities Professional software development experience with Java. Hands-on experience with reactive programming and asynchronous, non-blocking application design. Experience building distributed, event-driven applications with Apache Kafka. Experience developing or operating applications on AWS. Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and database technologies. Experience with automated testing, source control, and CI/CD practices. Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate across technical and business teams. Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities Experience with payment systems, financial transaction processing, or other high-volume, high-availability platforms. Familiarity with AWS services such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM. Experience with Kafka schema management, partitioning, consumer groups, replay, and delivery semantics. Knowledge of application security, encryption, secrets management, and regulatory considerations relevant to payments. Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Understanding of responsible AI practices, including data privacy, explainability, evaluation, and human oversight. In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems Practical cloud native experience (AWS). J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. 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. 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. Job Info Job Identification 210807959 Job Category Software Engineering Posting Date 11/09/2026 Job Schedule Full time Locations 200 Capital Dock, 79 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin, IE-D, D02 RK57, IE Regulated role: Fitness and Probity Regime Ireland (CF/PCF)? No