As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and community banking technology - Business Banking 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.
- Lead technical design and delivery of complex full-stack capabilities (Java/Spring Boot + React/Angular).
- Drive event-driven patterns using Kafka (idempotency, retries, ordering, error handling).
- Establish strong engineering practices (test strategy, automation, CI/CD quality gates, observability).
- Own production excellence: incident reduction, RCA prevention, performance tuning, and operational readiness.
Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across squads and partner teams.
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- 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
- Deep expertise in Java 8+ / Spring Boot, microservices, and React/Angular.
- Strong Kafka/event-driven architecture experience (retries, idempotency, DLQ patterns, schema/versioning).
- Experience with SQL databases with data modelling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Strong NoSQL experience: Cassandra / DynamoDB / Elastic Search (data modeling, reliability, scale).
- Strong experience with Cloud Foundry/AWS and CI/CD strategy and execution.
- Demonstrated leadership in design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical alignment.
- Ability to work with tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana for observability and monitoring
Experience building applications with resilient, highly available architectures, including consideration for failure modes, recovery, and operational readiness.
- Working knowledge of secure engineering practices and designing to meet Cyber Security and Technology Control requirements (e.g., authentication/authorization, secure APIs, data protection, dependency hygiene).
- Cross-team delivery leadership, PCI experience and AWS cert are pluses.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
- Knowledge of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling, and validation of AI outputs
- Deep expertise in Java 8 or later and Spring Boot
- Experience with microservices and React or Angular
- Strong Kafka and event-driven architecture experience, including retries, idempotency, DLQ patterns, and schema versioning
- Experience with SQL databases, data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning
- Strong NoSQL experience with Cassandra, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch
- Strong experience with Cloud Foundry or AWS and CI/CD strategy and execution
- Leadership in design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical alignment
- Experience with Dynatrace, Splunk, or Grafana
- Experience building resilient, highly available architectures with failure recovery and operational readiness
- Knowledge of secure engineering practices and cybersecurity and technology control requirements
- Cross-team delivery leadership
- PCI experience
- AWS certification
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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