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Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Corporate Technology team, you will play a key role in delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will work within an agile team to enhance, build, and support secure, stable, and scalable solutions. You will help shape the team culture and drive impactful results across multiple technical areas. Your expertise will support the firm’s business objectives and foster innovation.
Job Responsibilities:
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to solve complex problems.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
- Drive 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.
- Apply 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.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
- Lead 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.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced in one or more programming languages, preferrably Java.
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
- Practical cloud native experience.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience working in big data environments with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced knowledge of Java programming language.
- In-depth knowledge of software applications and technical processes in areas such as cloud, AI, machine learning, or mobile.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with minimal oversight.
- Proficiency in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
- Proficiency in cloud-native microservices architecture, design, and implementation.
- Proficiency in event-driven architecture and application containerization.
- Experience building applications on public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a preference for AWS.
- Proficiency in real-time streaming applications using Apache Spark Streaming, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and emerging cloud serverless managed services.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- Advanced practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, preferably Java
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Proficiency across the software development lifecycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its IT systems
- Practical cloud-native experience
- Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in big data environments
- Advanced knowledge of Java
- Knowledge of cloud, AI, machine learning, or mobile software applications and technical processes
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems with minimal oversight
- Proficiency in application, data, and infrastructure architecture
- Proficiency in cloud-native microservices architecture, design, and implementation
- Proficiency in event-driven architecture and application containerization
- Experience building applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure, preferably AWS
- Proficiency in real-time streaming applications using Apache Spark Streaming, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and cloud serverless services
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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