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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Global Banking and Wholesale Loan Technology 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
- Lead a feature team and contribute hands-on to design, development, and production support.
- Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy microservices and batch/EOD components to deliver sprint-ready increments.
- Build resilient integrations (REST/event-driven) with upstream/downstream systems and data stores.
- 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.
- Ensure code quality through standards, automated testing, architectural checks, and code reviews/pairing.
- Provide accurate estimates, support story mapping/splitting, and contribute to backlog refinement and prioritization.
- Facilitate sprint ceremonies (planning, reviews/demos, retros) and communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs.
- Drive best practices across engineering (CI/CD, observability, performance, reliability, secure coding).
Mentor and coach engineers, guiding solution design and raising team capability.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience .
- Experience in building and supporting production software with Python and Java (Java 17+).
- Strong experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices design patterns.
- Solid CS fundamentals: OOAD, collections, and concurrency/multithreading with strong SQL skills (complex query development, troubleshooting, and performance considerations).
- 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
- Proven end-to-end ownership: design → build → test → release → operate/support.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: code reviews, mentoring, setting standards, and leading delivery while remaining a strong IC contributor.
- Clear communication and stakeholder management; ability to translate complex concepts into pragmatic decisions.
- Strong quality mindset: testing strategy, CI/CD, reliability, and observability in day-to-day engineering.
- Experience working in Agile teams and translating business requirements into implementable designs.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Financial services experience, ideally in commercial lending / loan servicing domains.
- Familiarity with commercial credit/loan products and lifecycle processes (servicing, EOD/batch, integrations).
- Experience with ACBS (or similar loan servicing platforms).
- Experience with Kafka or equivalent event streaming/data distribution technologies.
- Strong DevOps practices: CI/CD automation, deployment pipelines, monitoring/alerting, and incident support.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Production software development and support experience with Python and Java 17+
- Strong experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices design patterns
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented analysis and design, collections, and concurrency or multithreading
- Strong SQL skills, including complex query development, troubleshooting, and performance considerations
- Experience leading approved AI-assisted software development tools for coding, code review, testing, and troubleshooting
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience coaching engineers on safe and compliant AI-assisted development practices
- End-to-end ownership of software design, build, testing, release, operation, and support
- Technical leadership experience involving code reviews, mentoring, standards, and delivery leadership
- Clear communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with testing strategy, CI/CD, reliability, and observability
- Experience working in Agile teams and translating business requirements into implementable designs
- Financial services experience, ideally in commercial lending or loan servicing
- Familiarity with commercial credit or loan products and lifecycle processes
- Experience with ACBS or similar loan servicing platforms
- Experience with Kafka or equivalent event-streaming and data-distribution technologies
- Strong DevOps practices, including CI/CD automation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and incident support
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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