Principal Software Engineer - Payments (Executive Director)

Seeking a transformative career at a global financial institution? Join our newly formed team at Chase, launched in 2021. We're dedicated to creating customer-centric solutions to real-world problems, fostering an environment that encourages skill development and potential realization. Our success hinges on our people-first approach, valuing collaboration, curiosity, and commitment.

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Job responsibilities

• Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firm wide technology objectives
• Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
• Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Drive the development of the core banking platform, helping with the long term product strategy and leading its day-to-day execution

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Hands on coding expertise on Java/Kotlin
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists.
• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale.
• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent.
• Extensive practical cloud native experience.
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated prior experience of developing and rolling out a product at large scale.
• Experience working at code level.
• Experience designing high throughput and highly observable systems.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Previous experience working in Payments Technology and/or knowledge of retail banking products.
• Previous experience in building market infrastructure for payment networks like UPI, Visa, Mastercard, SEPA, FPS, or BACS