We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Lead Software Engineer - Identity Access Management at JPMorgan Chase within the CTO Team, you will be part of a team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor of a software engineering team, you will need to execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.
Job responsibilities:
- Leverage enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and automation while maintaining secure, high-quality, auditable delivery.
- Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, and ensure implemented code conforms to design constraints and standards.
- 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.
- Design, develop, and continuously improve scalable, resilient systems in a timely manner in partnership with product teams.
- Write clean, well-documented, unit-tested code to ensure high-quality software modules.
- Incorporate non-functional requirements (telemetry, monitoring, security, alerting, logging) into solution designs and implementations.
- Manage critical, time-sensitive concurrent tasks with appropriate supervision, prioritization, and escalation when needed.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to enhance delivery flow across product and technology.
- Mentor and develop team members in design, new technologies, clean code, TDD, code review, and problem-solving practices.
- Partner with product/customers to understand program function and end-user experience, support production issues as needed, collaborate effectively in distributed Agile teams, and contribute as a technology coach/lead developer across teams.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to influence stakeholders, explain complex technical concepts, and collaborate across teams and time zones.
- Demonstrated leadership in using approved AI-assisted development tools (coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) and setting team standards to validate AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency/security expectations; able to coach teams on safe, compliant adoption.
- Proficiency with AI coding/analysis assistants to improve developer productivity and velocity, applying appropriate governance and security controls.
- Proven innovator with a track record of proposing and prototyping new design ideas to solve problems.
- Expert knowledge of OOP, design patterns, and software analysis/design practices.
- Ability to assess upstream/downstream system and data impacts and recommend mitigation actions.
- Strong backend engineering experience with Java, REST/web services/APIs, Spring Boot, microservices, multithreading, and databases (e.g., Oracle, MS SQL, CockroachDB).
- Frontend experience with modern UI frameworks such as React and Angular.
- DevOps/quality and non-functional tooling experience, including Terraform (or similar IaC), test automation (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, Blazemeter), Git, Jenkins CI/CD, application resiliency and security, and performance/telemetry/monitoring/alerts/logging.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience with customer facing web applications, NOSQL databases such as Mongo
- Experience with Agile Development Techniques, Issue/Bug Management and Team Collaboration Tools
- Understand requirements, technical design and ask the right questions to be able to come up with good quality solution
- Zeal to learn new technologies.
- Independent and self-motivated
- Experience leading a technical team
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 on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; influence stakeholders and collaborate across time zones
- Demonstrated leadership using approved AI-assisted development tools and setting team validation standards
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and resiliency/security expectations
- Proficiency with AI coding/analysis assistants to improve developer productivity while applying governance and security controls
- Expert knowledge of OOP, design patterns, and software analysis/design practices
- Strong backend engineering experience with Java, REST APIs, Spring Boot, microservices, and multithreading
- Experience with databases such as Oracle, MS SQL, CockroachDB
- Frontend experience with modern UI frameworks such as React and Angular
- DevOps and quality tooling experience including Terraform (or similar IaC), Git, Jenkins CI/CD
- Test automation and QA tooling experience (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, Blazemeter)
- Experience incorporating telemetry, monitoring, security, alerting, logging, and application resiliency into designs
- Proven track record of proposing and prototyping new design ideas to solve problems
- Ability to assess upstream/downstream system and data impacts and recommend mitigation actions
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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