Are you ready to make a meaningful impact at one of the world's most innovative financial institutions? At JPMorganChase, we combine cutting-edge technology with a culture of collaboration and continuous learning — empowering you to grow your career while solving real-world challenges at scale.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Reference Data Engineering team, you are a technical leader and a key contributor on an agile team, designing and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for driving critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives. In this role, you will have the opportunity to deepen your technical expertise, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to systems that power global financial markets.
Job responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of secure, high-quality software solutions, thinking beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems at scale
- Create and maintain secure, high-quality production code and algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while ensuring design constraints are met throughout the software development process - Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and use these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
- Write secure and high-quality code in Java, Angular, RESTful APIs, and SOAP, applying knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
- Apply advanced technical troubleshooting to break down and resolve complex technical problems, applying system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- 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 advanced applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in coding in one or more programming languages
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience writing well-tested, secure, and readable code in Java, UI frameworks such as Angular, RESTful APIs, and SOAP
- Experience with RESTful web service development using Spring Boot, Hibernate, or a similar framework
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and infrastructure
- Practical understanding of containerized application development and deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS
- Experience with component-based web UI frameworks such as ReactJS, Angular, or Vue.js, and knowledge of relational databases and SQL, especially Oracle
- Experience working as part of an agile, user-centric product team
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment using modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience writing well-tested, secure, readable code in Java, Angular or similar UI frameworks, RESTful APIs, and SOAP
- Experience developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Hibernate, or a similar framework
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs for correctness, performance, and security
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security
- Ability to guide peers on safe and effective AI-assisted engineering practices
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and infrastructure
- Practical understanding of containerized application development and deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS
- Experience with component-based web UI frameworks such as ReactJS, Angular, or Vue.js
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, especially Oracle
- Experience working as part of an agile, user-centric product team
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.
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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