we are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Global Payments & Liquidity Treasury Technology organization. This role focuses on delivering high-quality, modern engineering solutions across critical payment platforms.
Responsibilities
Lead the design and development of high-quality software solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, non-functional requirements, and modern engineering best practices.
Collaborate closely with architects, senior engineers, and product partners to support modernization initiatives, including cloud readiness, API design, data strategy, and application migration.
Serve as a technical lead during cross-team initiatives-providing guidance on design, integration, performance, and deployment.
Troubleshoot complex technical issues, identify root causes, and help drive resolution of development, build, or deployment blockers.
Participate actively in coding, peer reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making.
Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and reliability standards.
Contribute to automation initiatives, CI/CD improvements, DevOps practices, and test automation.
Support testing phases such as system testing, UAT, and performance validation.
Required Qualifications
6+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent via work experience, training, military, or education).
6+ years of hands-on development experience in a technical engineering role.
3+ years in ACI payments application suite, ACI MTS, UPF & APSF
Experience in providing technical leadership or mentoring within a team.
Desired Qualifications
Experience with payments systems such as ACH and/or Wires.
Hands-on experience with ACI UPF (Universal Payments Framework) including
Endpoint, Gateway, and Bank Adapter configurations
Message routing rules and processing rule setup
Cartridge deployment and lifecycle management
UPF Control Center operations (monitoring, auditing, alerting)
Security configurations, including SP (Security Best Practices), crypto polici keystore/truststore management
Experience with UPF 5.x message flows, logging, troubleshooting, and ISO 2 message orchestration
Experience with ACSF/APSF configurations, WebSphere deployments, and automation (Jython/Python, Unix shell scripting).
Experience with ACI MTS, including Entia setup, routing rules, remote records, an line configurations.
Strong understanding of global payment rails (FED, CHIPS, CHAPS, TARGET, SWIF
Exposure to ISO 20022 implementations.
Solid experience with Microservices, JEE, middleware, transaction management, security, connection pooling, messaging, and performance tuning.
Experience conducting NFR testing including RTO/RPO validation.
Experience collaborating across distributed/virtual teams.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with high attention to detail.
4+ years with JMS, 4+ years with Kafka/Confluent, and 3+ years with Oracle.
Experience with secure DevOps, cloud deployment automation, and test automation.
Experience collaborating across distributed/virtua
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with t
4+ years with JMS, 4+ years with Kafka/Confluent,
Experience with secure DevOps, cloud deployment automation and test automation
Job Expectations
Ability to work onsite at one of the posted locations.
Relocation assistance is not available.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Industry
Other/Not Classified
Company Size
100 to 499 employees
Skills
Acceptance Testingunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Auditingunmatched
Automationunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Code Reviewsunmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Continuous Integrationunmatched
Cryptographyunmatched
Detail Orientedunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
Enterprise Architectureunmatched
IBM WebSphere Application Serverunmatched
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)unmatched