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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms, Cloud Foundational Service team, 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 breakdown technical problems
- Develops secure and 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 the design and delivery of cloud-native platform capabilities used by engineering teams across the firm, partnering with a global team of engineers to identify gaps in our cloud products and shape new features that deliver business value
- Owns end-to-end delivery— from development through deployment and production support — and mentors engineers on the team, modelling clear communication, stakeholder management, and disciplined ownership of projects to completion
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines
- 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 proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go
- 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
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Practical cloud-native experience, including building and operating large-scale infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, container platforms, load balancers) on public cloud, and using Infrastructure as Code tools such as HashiCorp Terraform.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage customers and stakeholders, mentor engineers, and independently drive root-cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues
- Experience designing and operating cloud-native applications using effective operational patterns such as SLOs, error budgets, health checks, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Experience with database and messaging technologies (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, CockroachDB, Oracle) and with ETL / data platforms such as AWS Glue
- Track record of contributing to engineering communities of practice or open source, and of staying current with industry trends to inform team direction.
- Experience leading geographically distributed agile teams within a regulated financial services environment.
About UsJ.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related discipline
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating AI outputs
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and resiliency/security expectations
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
- Practical cloud-native experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure on public cloud and using Infrastructure as Code tools such as HashiCorp Terraform
- Ability to lead design and delivery of cloud-native platform capabilities and mentor engineers
- Experience designing and operating cloud-native applications using SLOs, error budgets, health checks, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Experience with database and messaging technologies (MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, CockroachDB, Oracle) and ETL/data platforms such as AWS Glue
- Track record contributing to engineering communities of practice or open source and staying current with industry trends
- Experience leading geographically distributed agile teams within a regulated financial services environment
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 comprehensive, with on-site clinics, preventive care, and specialized supports such as maternity nurse guidance and fertility treatments. Wellness activities can help offset copays and out-of-pocket costs, reinforcing the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching and additional automatic pay credits reflect strong employer-backed retirement savings. An employee stock purchase plan and related financial programs further bolster long-term financial support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick time, holidays, and generous parental leave are provided alongside family medical leave and adoption/fertility assistance. Additional programs like caregiver support and volunteer time off expand the breadth of time-away options.
JPMorganChase Insights
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.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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