We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise-scale web applications and backend services supporting Payments Technology capabilities.
- Deliver modern frontend solutions using React, micro frontend architecture, reusable components, and responsive user interface patterns.
- Build and maintain scalable Java / Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL, and distributed application components.
- 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.
- Produce secure, high-quality production code that meets functional, non-functional, resiliency, performance, and maintainability requirements.
- Contribute to architecture and design artifacts for complex application features, integrations, and platform capabilities.
- Apply engineering best practices across software design, coding standards, test automation, CI/CD, observability, and secure development.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across frontend, backend, integration, cloud, and production environments.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale, production-grade applications in complex technology environments.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Strong frontend engineering experience with React, JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frontend tooling such as Vite, Webpack, or equivalent.
- 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
- Experience with micro frontend architecture, including modular frontend design, shared components, application integration patterns, and independently maintainable frontend capabilities.
- Practical experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms and cloud-native design patterns.
- Experience with automated testing and quality engineering practices, including tools and frameworks such as JUnit, Playwright, React Testing Library, smoke testing, integration testing, or similar.
- Proficiency in debugging, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning across frontend and backend systems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, architecture, operations, and engineering teams.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in payments, financial services, or high-volume transaction platforms.
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Exposure to cloud technologies
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 10+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale, production-grade applications in complex technology environments
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and distributed systems
- Strong frontend engineering experience with React, JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frontend tooling such as Vite or Webpack
- Experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience coaching engineers on safe and compliant AI-assisted development practices
- Experience with micro frontend architecture, modular frontend design, shared components, application integration patterns, and independently maintainable frontend capabilities
- Practical experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms and cloud-native design patterns
- Experience with automated testing and quality engineering practices, including JUnit, Playwright, React Testing Library, smoke testing, or integration testing
- Proficiency in debugging, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning across frontend and backend systems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across product, architecture, operations, and engineering teams
- Experience in payments, financial services, or high-volume transaction platforms
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Exposure to cloud technologies
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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