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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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
- Designs and develops robust, high-performance, latency-sensitive code; incorporates security requirements; and reviews code written by team members using software engineering best practices.
- Writes secure, high-quality code and automated tests.
- Works closely with Product Owners, Solutions Analysts, Technical Architects, and Senior Engineers to define the best technical design and development approach.
- Translates business requirements into technical solutions, recommends alternative technical and business approaches, and leads engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
- Helps refine the technical aspects of epics in collaboration with Solutions Analysts.
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while ensuring design constraints are met by code.
- Drives architectural reviews, code reviews, and business demos.
- Assesses compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performant at scale, and exceed customer expectations.
- 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.
- Contributes to the ongoing development of the team, including recruitment, paired programming, peer review, and mentoring.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Excellent understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals and frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming paradigms, multithreading, messaging technologies, and computer networks
- Experience with low-latency programming techniques and technologies such as Inter-Process Communication (IPC), memory-mapped files, and ring buffers
- Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers
- Experience working on distributed systems, including detailed knowledge of distributed-systems design patterns
- Detailed knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB) including resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and security
- Experience with distributed messaging technologies such as Kafka
- 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 diagramming tools (PlantUML, Lucid, Draw.io, Visio) and technical writing; passion for technical innovation, staying current with emerging technologies, understanding the SDLC and agile methodologies, and demonstrated coaching/mentoring experience
- Hands-on experience with another statically compiled language such as Golang, Rust, or C++.
- Experience with Apache Ignite, GridGain, Hazelcast, or Redis.
- Experience with infrastructure as code software such as Terraform.
- Awareness of key architectural patterns/approaches, algorithms, data structures, cryptography, security protocols (e.g., TLS and OAuth/OIDC), secure system design and Threat Modelling.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Excellent understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals and frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming paradigms, multithreading, messaging technologies, and computer networks
- Experience with low-latency programming techniques and technologies such as Inter-Process Communication (IPC), memory-mapped files, and ring buffers
- Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers
- Experience working on distributed systems, including detailed knowledge of distributed-systems design patterns
- Detailed knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB) including resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and security
- Experience with distributed messaging technologies such as Kafka
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and setting team validation expectations
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity and secure handling, and experience coaching engineers
- Experience with diagramming tools (PlantUML, Lucid, Draw.io, Visio) and technical writing; experience mentoring/coaching engineers
- Hands-on experience with another statically compiled language such as Golang, Rust, or C++
- Experience with Apache Ignite, GridGain, Hazelcast, or Redis
- Experience with infrastructure as code software such as Terraform
- Awareness of architectural patterns, algorithms, data structures, cryptography, security protocols (e.g., TLS and OAuth/OIDC), secure system design and threat modeling
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.
JPMorganChase Insights
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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