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Lead Software Engineer, Payments Modernization

Jersey City, US💼 Full-time💰 $122,000–$122,000🗓 2026-09-29

Core

Lead technical strategy and delivery for a next-generation wire payment processing platform, ensuring scalable, resilient, and compliant solutions for business-critical initiatives.

Role type

Senior IC/Lead Software Engineer (Payments Modernization)

Builds

Next-generation wire payment processing platform, enterprise-scale backend systems, and CI/CD pipelines

Domain

Financial Services / Payments / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Java (Enterprise Edition), Spring Framework, AWS Cloud Services, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Oracle SQL, Python, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, Payment Systems (Wire, ACH, RTP), ISO 20022

Preferred skills

Event-driven architecture, Financial products data (Equities, Fixed Income), Observability tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana), Serverless computing, Multi-region disaster recovery

Technologies

Java, Spring, AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway), Kafka, RabbitMQ, Oracle, Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Ansible

Responsibilities

Define technology tool stacks and evaluate new testing frameworks; Enable teams with CI/CD capabilities; Guide teams on design best practices and code performance; Conduct research and prototyping for release management; Partner with stakeholders to establish solution needs and technical requirements; Provide technical direction and mentor engineers across cross-functional teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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