Senior Lead Software Engineer - Staff Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Merchant Services, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

• Own and drive the overall technical design vision for the Commerce Center portal, ensuring alignment with business and technical goals.
• Lead the technical design review process, serving as the accountable decision-maker for solution architecture and design proposals.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of functional and non-functional requirements, design rationale, and architectural decisions.
• Champion the creation of simple, reusable, and resilient micro front end components and architectural patterns to drive scalability, usability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with domain experts and cross-functional teams, including the Design Guild, to ensure robust solutions across UI, React, Micro Front Ends, Single-SPA, AWS hosting, and API integrations.
• Facilitate structured implementation reviews to verify delivery against agreed-upon designs and architecture.
• Advise and mentor engineering teams on technical design, architecture, and best practices for distributed, cloud-native systems.

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Proven expertise in solution architecture, system design, and technical leadership for large-scale, distributed systems
• Hands‑on expertise with cloud-native technologies and AWS hosting, including deployment, monitoring, and operational stability
• Deep understanding of Single‑SPA, micro front end patterns, and backend‑for‑frontend (BFF) architectures
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain comprehensive design documentation and architectural artifacts
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving consensus on technical decisions
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and Dev Ops practices in AWS
• Deep understanding of accessibility, usability, and resilient design principles for web applications
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Experience as a Design Authority, Staff/Principal Engineer, or Solution Architect in a large enterprise or financial services environment
• Prior experience with customer-facing portals or payment systems. Familiarity with secure API integration and interfacing with external datasets and services
• Experience with technical design guilds, technical communities of practice, or similar collaborative design forums
• Prior leadership in driving adoption of reusable components and architectural standards across multiple teams