Join a fast-moving team where your engineering leadership directly shapes the platforms developers rely on every day. You will grow your impact by delivering modern, resilient solutions at enterprise scale.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Infrastructure Platforms team, you are an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will lead end-to-end delivery across front-end, backend services, and data layers to support critical business objectives. You will partner closely with product and stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage delivery readiness, and drive outcomes. You will also raise engineering standards through strong reviews, automation, and responsible use of AI-assisted development practices.
Job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver end-to-end full-stack solutions across user interfaces, backend services and application programming interfaces, and database scripts
- Build scalable and resilient applications using modern frameworks, microservices, and integration patterns
- Create secure, high-quality production code with reliable algorithms, observability, and well-managed system integrations
- Translate business objectives into actionable epics and stories with clear acceptance criteria and definition of done
- Drive stakeholder engagement through working sessions and reviews, capturing decisions and ensuring follow-through
- Maintain a delivery-ready backlog through refinement, decomposition, prioritization, and sequencing aligned to customer value
- Identify risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early, and propose mitigation plans to protect timelines and outcomes
- 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.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and agile ceremonies while optimizing performance, scalability, and reliability
- 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.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Advanced proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, with experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment
- Full software development life cycle experience across backend technologies such as Java with Spring Boot and Python
- Frontend development experience using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frameworks such as React and or Angular
- Database experience with Oracle and or Microsoft SQL Server, including querying and performance tuning fundamentals
- Reporting and visualization experience using Tableau or similar tools
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery practices, including unit, functional, and regression testing, and continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
- Strong understanding of agile delivery, application resiliency, and secure engineering practices
- 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 working in a product or platform environment with cross-team dependency management
- Exposure to cloud technologies in enterprise environments
- Familiarity with additional modern front-end technologies beyond primary frameworks used today
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering and 5+ years applied experience
- Advanced proficiency in one or more modern programming languages with large-corporate development experience
- Full SDLC experience with backend technologies such as Java with Spring Boot and Python
- Frontend development experience using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frameworks such as React or Angular
- Database experience with Oracle and/or Microsoft SQL Server, including querying and performance tuning fundamentals
- Reporting and visualization experience using Tableau or similar tools
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery practices, unit/functional/regression testing, and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of agile delivery, application resiliency, and secure engineering practices
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating AI outputs
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, and coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption
- Experience working in a product or platform environment with cross-team dependency management
- Exposure to cloud technologies in enterprise environments
- Familiarity with additional modern front-end technologies beyond primary frameworks
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 comprehensive, with on-site clinics, preventive care, and specialized supports such as maternity nurse guidance and fertility treatments. Wellness activities can help offset copays and out-of-pocket costs, reinforcing the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching and additional automatic pay credits reflect strong employer-backed retirement savings. An employee stock purchase plan and related financial programs further bolster long-term financial support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick time, holidays, and generous parental leave are provided alongside family medical leave and adoption/fertility assistance. Additional programs like caregiver support and volunteer time off expand the breadth of time-away options.
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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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