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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the CTO IAM, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proven track record of driving engineering standards and best practices (e.g., code quality, testing strategy, release governance) across a team or product area
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)- Strong hands-on React (architecture, performance, reusable component patterns). Strong hands-on Java backend engineering (API design, service patterns, reliability, performance). Strong JavaScript, TypeScript fundamentals.
- Develop and operate AI agents that integrate with enterprise systems, with a focus on reliability, observability, and safety-by-design. Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs, outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
- Senior Lead full-stack engineering experience owning delivery across UI, services, integrations, and production support.
- Demonstrated technical leadership. Drives design, engineering decisions, sets standards, and unblocks delivery. Mentors engineers, leads code reviews, raises overall code quality. Partners effectively with Product, QA, and stakeholders
- Proven delivery in an Agile setup (planning, execution, estimation, continuous improvement). Clear ownership of code quality and testing strategy (unit integration e2e, testability, meaningful coverage, regression strategy).
- Strong secure SDLC, cybersecurity practices (secure coding, OWASP, dependency hygiene, secrets management, authn, authz basics).
- Strong CI CD, automation experience (pipelines, quality gates, deployment practices).
- Experience with LLMs/agent frameworks, prompt/tool orchestration, and evaluation strategies.
- Production experience with containers/Kubernetes, feature flags, and observability stacks.
- Performance tuning and resilience patterns (caching, async workflows, circuit breakers).
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
Skills Required
- Drive engineering standards and best practices across a team or product area (code quality, testing strategy, release governance).
- System design, application development, testing, and operational stability experience.
- Advanced React (architecture, performance, reusable component patterns).
- Strong Java backend engineering (API design, service patterns, reliability, performance).
- Strong JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals.
- Develop and operate AI agents integrated with enterprise systems focusing on reliability, observability, and safety-by-design.
- Experience leading adoption and validation of AI-assisted software development tools and practices.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, and secure handling of inputs/outputs.
- Senior/lead full-stack engineering experience owning UI, services, integrations, and production support.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, design decision ownership, and ability to unblock delivery.
- Proven delivery in Agile (planning, execution, estimation, continuous improvement).
- Ownership of code quality and testing strategy (unit, integration, e2e, regression strategy).
- Strong secure SDLC and cybersecurity practices (secure coding, OWASP, dependency hygiene, secrets management, authn/authz basics).
- Strong CI/CD and automation experience (pipelines, quality gates, deployment practices).
- Experience with LLMs/agent frameworks, prompt/tool orchestration, and evaluation strategies.
- Production experience with containers/Kubernetes, feature flags, and observability stacks.
- Performance tuning and resilience patterns (caching, async workflows, circuit breakers).
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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