Lead Software Engineer - JAVA / Spring / Kafka / Kubernetes

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. Join us as a Lead Software Engineer and help shape market-leading technology products in Payments Technology. You’ll collaborate with talented professionals, solve complex challenges, and grow your expertise in a supportive, innovative environment.

Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Corporate and Investment Bank – Payments Technology team, you will be an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers trusted technology solutions. You will serve as a core technical contributor, developing critical solutions across multiple technical areas to support the firm’s business objectives. You will foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and inclusion.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build and optimize technology products.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials.
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in Java and related technologies.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Proficient in all aspects of the software development life cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and IT systems.
• Practical cloud native experience.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience in design and design patterns.
• Experience coaching and mentoring teams.