As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Securities Services Technology, 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
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- 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.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Extensive experience in building and running AWS/public cloud based applications
- Solid programming skills with Python
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience of pipelines and DAG's (Directed Acyclic graph) for processing data and/or machine learning
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT system.
- 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 Cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerized application development
- Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and AWS services such as S3, EKS, SageMaker, and Bedrock
- Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Kafka, MLOps and Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)
- Experience working on AIML systems and/or prior experience collaborating with data scientists
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Extensive experience building and running AWS or public cloud applications
- Solid programming skills with Python
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in automation, continuous delivery methods, and the software development lifecycle
- Experience with pipelines and DAGs for data or machine-learning processing
- Proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline such as cloud or AI and machine learning
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its IT systems
- Experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
- 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 engineering practices
- Experience with cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, and containerized application development
- Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and AWS services including S3, EKS, SageMaker, and Bedrock
- Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Kafka, MLOps, and LLMOps
- Experience working on AI and machine-learning systems or collaborating with data scientists
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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