Design and deliver cloud‑native platforms for product intake, communication, and collaboration as part of an agile engineering organization.
You’re a seasoned technical leader ready to own portfolio‑scale challenges and elevate engineering excellence—and we have an exceptional opportunity for you.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology team, you will shape architecture and drive delivery across the firm’s state‑of‑the‑art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You’ll set technical direction, lead complex initiatives end‑to‑end, and mentor engineers across teams, ensuring consistent design standards, robust operational practices, and measurable business outcomes.
In this role, you’ll join an agile engineering organization building and operating three firmwide platforms—Feature Request, Convey, and TechTube—that streamline product intake, customer communication, and knowledge sharing across the organization. You’ll take ownership of one or more product teams within this portfolio while influencing cross‑platform strategy, architectural decisions, and the full SDLC to deliver scalable, cloud‑native capabilities that improve transparency, collaboration, and value delivery for product teams firmwide. Given the common technology stack, cross‑team contribution is expected, and you’ll frequently lead initiatives spanning multiple products.
Job responsibilities
- Own portfolio‑level architecture and technical strategy across one or more platforms (Feature Request, Convey, TechTube), ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient solutions across the SDLC.
- Lead complex technical initiatives—from discovery and design through delivery and operations—establishing engineering standards, reusable patterns, and reference implementations for cross‑team adoption.
- Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business goals into measurable technical outcomes, define roadmaps, and drive transparency through product metrics and KPIs; Champion agile practices including shared backlog ownership, crowdsourced prioritization, and community‑driven product development, advocating for technical excellence and sustainable engineering; Mentor and grow engineers (junior through senior), conducting design reviews, code reviews, and hands‑on guidance on best practices, system design, and implementation approaches.
- Design and implement complex, cloud‑native software solutions with clear ownership of upstream/downstream integrations, including Jira integrations, notification workflows, serverless architectures, and API extensions.
- Write secure, high‑quality, well‑documented code across multiple languages and frameworks (e.g., Java Spring Boot, React.js, GraphQL, Python) while modeling best‑in‑class engineering practices.
- Architect and build backend services, GraphQL APIs, and modern React UIs; ensure thoughtful API design (GraphQL and REST) and robust client‑server contracts.
- Set and enforce non‑functional standards (security, performance, availability, observability, cost efficiency), including SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and automated quality gates in CI/CD.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tools, and approaches to improve developer experience, platform quality, and delivery velocity; lead proofs of concept and guide adoption; Promote secure‑by‑design and privacy‑aware patterns, threat modeling, and proactive risk identification to meet firm standards and industry best practices.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
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5+ years of experience in API software development (Java Spring, Python FastAPI)
- 2+ years of experience with AWS (e.g. ECS/Fargate, SNS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3)
- 3+ years of experience with relational databases
- Experience in deploying cloud services using Infrastructure as Code
- Proven expertise in distributed system design (AWS stability, resiliency and security)
- Proven capability of application architecture and technical leadership, as well as elevate current practices and operations
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Strong experience developing, debugging, deploying and maintaining code in large enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and practices
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Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and guide architectural decisions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, as well as experienced in aligning technical decisions to business outcomes and product strategy.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Exposure to React
- Experience with AI/ML including vector database
- Exposure to GraphQL
- Experience with CockroachDB, Aurora Postgres and DynamoDB
- Exposure to video streaming, content management, or media platforms, including performance and caching strategies.
- Familiarity with email servers and SMTP protocol
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Strong background in observability and performance optimization (metrics, logging, tracing), and cost governance for cloud workloads.
About Us
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 in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- 5+ years of API software development experience with Java Spring and Python FastAPI
- 2+ years of AWS experience, including services such as ECS/Fargate, SNS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, and S3
- 3+ years of experience with relational databases
- Experience deploying cloud services using Infrastructure as Code
- Expertise in distributed system design, including AWS stability, resiliency, and security
- Application architecture and technical leadership experience
- Experience developing, debugging, deploying, and maintaining code in large enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and practices
- Ability to mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and guide architectural decisions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to align technical decisions with business outcomes and product strategy
- Exposure to React
- Experience with AI/ML, including vector databases
- Exposure to GraphQL
- Experience with CockroachDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB
- Exposure to video streaming, content management, or media platforms, including performance and caching strategies
- Familiarity with email servers and SMTP
- Background in observability and performance optimization, including metrics, logging, tracing, and cloud cost governance
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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