As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, 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
- Design, build, and enhance microservices framework components and platform services used across the Consumer Bank.
- Engineer and operate API gateway and API management capabilities (e.g., Kong) to support external APIs.
- Implement scalable, secure patterns for APIs, microservices, and event-driven applications across cloud and edge platforms (e.g., AWS, Akamai).
- Partner with application teams and platform stakeholders to define standards, reusable patterns, and reference implementations.
- Contribute to architecture, analysis, design, development, code reviews, and technical documentation.
- Drive engineering excellence through automation, testing, reliability practices, and continuous improvement in CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in Agile delivery and support production readiness through operational ownership and incident follow-up.
- 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.
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure architecture.
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Java, Python, and/or Golang (7+ years).
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform for AWS provisioning (3+ years).
- Experience building and operating API capabilities, including APIs, API gateways, and API management (3+ years).
- Experience deploying and operating workloads on AWS, using EKS (3+ years).
- Strong engineering fundamentals: architecture, analysis, design, coding, and code review. Proficiency with modern developer toolchains and engineering best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate in large, cross-functional teams and contribute to an inclusive, innovative engineering culture. Experience with Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices.
- 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
- Deep expertise with AWS services supporting platform engineering, networking, security, and observability.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and managed messaging/streaming patterns.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure architecture
- Strong understanding of Docker and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Java, Python, and/or Golang with 7+ years of experience
- 3+ years of Infrastructure as Code experience, including Terraform for AWS provisioning
- 3+ years of experience building and operating APIs, API gateways, and API management capabilities
- 3+ years of experience deploying and operating AWS workloads using EKS
- Strong architecture, analysis, design, coding, code review, and modern developer toolchain skills
- Experience collaborating in large cross-functional teams and working with Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices
- Experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience coaching engineers on safe and compliant AI-assisted development
- Deep expertise with AWS services for platform engineering, networking, security, and observability
- Experience with event-driven architectures and managed messaging or streaming patterns
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 — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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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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