Be an integral part of an agile team that continually pushes the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver high-quality technology products.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Banking and Reconciliation team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable solutions. You will bring deep expertise in Java full-stack engineering, system design, and software architecture, and you will be expected to drive end-to-end deliveries—from requirements and architecture through build, test, release, and production support.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives: translate business outcomes into technical designs, plan execution, drive delivery milestones, and ensure production readiness.
- Provide technical guidance and direction to business and technical teams, including contractors and vendors.
- Build secure, high-quality production code (Java full stack) and conduct thorough code reviews; debug and uplift code written by others.
- Own system design and architecture decisions: define service boundaries, APIs/contracts, data models, resiliency patterns, scalability strategies, and non-functional requirements (performance, security, availability).
- Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations/processes (CI/CD, observability, incident response, reliability).
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more focus areas (e.g., Java microservices, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, AWS).
- Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC best practices.
- Influence peers and project decision-makers to adopt leading-edge technologies and modern engineering patterns.
- 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.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Advanced hands-on experience in Java with strong grasp of backend engineering fundamentals (concurrency, performance, security, testing).
- Proven ability to deliver system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in production environments.
- Demonstrated strength in design and architecture: microservices and distributed systems patterns, event-driven architecture, API design, data consistency, resiliency and fault tolerance.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight; comfortable acting as the engineering “driver” to unblock delivery.
- Practical cloud-native experience, including building, deploying, and operating services on cloud platforms.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive quality across the SDLC: design reviews, implementation, automation, release, and ongoing support.
- 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
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Experience in AWS (e.g., designing/deploying cloud-native services, security and IAM concepts, monitoring/observability, cost-aware design).
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Advanced hands-on Java experience
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, performance, security, and testing
- Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and production operations
- Experience with microservices and distributed systems patterns
- Experience with event-driven architecture, API design, data consistency, resiliency, and fault tolerance
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems with minimal oversight
- Practical cloud-native experience building, deploying, and operating services on cloud platforms
- Experience driving quality across the software development lifecycle
- Experience leading approved AI-assisted software development tools for coding, code review, testing, or troubleshooting
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience coaching engineers on safe and compliant AI-assisted development practices
- AWS experience, including cloud-native services, security, IAM, monitoring, observability, and cost-aware design
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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