As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Lending technology, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.
Job responsibilities
Lead a global scrum team to deliver on commitments, taking full ownership of business results. You will work closely with Product partners, collaborating and influencing direction. You bring technical solutions to business problems, offering your perspective on how technology can make the product better and deliver results for our clients.
Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and suggest new ideas that drive meaningful impact. You are opinionated about how technology can elevate the product and are always looking for ways to deliver better outcomes for our clients.
Integrate AI into everything you do, both in the solutions you deliver and the way your team works. You bring ideas from a technology perspective on how AI can solve real business problems and accelerate delivery. You encourage and mentor developers to adopt AI-first development approaches, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Set a clear long-term vision for the platform, architecting for scale, resilience, and flexibility. Design and evolve robust, secure, and adaptable solutions that meet future business needs. Champion best practices in system design, integration, and modernization, and set high standards for documentation and design patterns across teams. Exemplify architectural excellence, setting the tone for others and raising the bar for the team. Proactively address technical debt to keep the team focused on delivering value and advancing the platform.
Lead by example and model the behaviors we want from every developer. You are a culture changer who takes the team from the status quo to the next level. You enjoy leveling up the team, pushing them to new heights, and supporting junior developers as they grow into senior technologists. You share knowledge, and are passionate about elevating your team’s capabilities.
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives adoption and governance of approved AI assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI assisted code review refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC TLM toolchain.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced hands-on experience developing enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and REST-based services.
- Advanced experience designing and implementing modern distributed, event-driven architectures using Microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, relational databases, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
- Strong hands-on experience with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, including frontend architecture, performance optimization, reusable component design patterns, and enterprise-scale web application development.
- Proven experience leading technical design discussions, influencing architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and driving modernization initiatives across multiple applications and technology stacks.
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (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 senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Strong hands-on experience building and operating scalable, resilient, secure cloud-native applications and distributed systems.
- Python experience is a plus
- NoSQL database experience is a plus
- Experience with AWS cloud services including ECS/Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, IAM, and Terraform.
- Experience with Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
- Experience in financial services, lending, credit origination, workflow, or document management platforms is preferred.
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
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- At least 5 years of applied software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and REST-based services
- Experience designing distributed, event-driven architectures using Microservices, REST, GraphQL, relational databases, and asynchronous messaging
- Strong experience with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, including frontend architecture and enterprise-scale web applications
- Experience leading technical design discussions, influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving modernization
- Experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Ability to solve design and functionality problems independently with minimal oversight
- Experience building and operating scalable, resilient, secure cloud-native applications and distributed systems
- Python experience
- NoSQL database experience
- AWS experience with ECS/Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, IAM, and Terraform
- Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming platform experience
- Financial services, lending, credit origination, workflow, or document management platform experience
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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