We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Consumer & Community Banking (CCB), you are an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you will deliver critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas and business functions in support of the firm’s objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and troubleshoot software solutions, applying creative approaches to solve complex technical problems.
- Deliver end-to-end cloud-native, microservices-based backend applications using Python and modern engineering practices.
- Apply domain modeling techniques to build high-quality business products with an emphasis on clarity, testability, and maintainability.
- Write secure, high-quality production code in Python; review, debug, and improve code written by others.
- Design and build scalable, resilient architectures that avoid single points of failure and support zero-downtime releases.
- Improve operational stability by identifying and automating remediation for recurring issues; ensure issues are investigated and resolved with durable fixes.
- Contribute to continuous modernization by evolving technologies, patterns, and engineering standards.
- Lead and contribute to communities of practice, promoting adoption of new and leading-edge technologies.
- Foster an inclusive team culture that values diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
- Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
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 in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of hands-on experience across system design, development, testing, and production support.
- Strong proficiency in Python building backend services and microservices using frameworks such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI.
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision.
- Strong RESTful API design and maintenance skills, including versioning, backward compatibility, schema contracts, and documentation.
- Experience designing scalable, resilient distributed systems using patterns such as Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Retry/Timeout, CQRS, Event-Driven Architecture, Saga/Process Orchestration, and Idempotency.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and web technologies (REST, WebSockets, JSON).
- Hands-on experience designing/building scalable data solutions using SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi) and modern delivery practices including Agile (Scrum), SDLC, CI/CD, automation, application resiliency, and security.
- 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
- soft skills including presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and stakeholder management.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills; ability to scale impact by sharing best practices.
- Experience in the banking/financial services domain and AWS experience
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of hands-on experience across system design, development, testing, and production support
- Strong proficiency building Python backend services and microservices with Flask, Django, or FastAPI
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision
- Strong RESTful API design and maintenance skills, including versioning, backward compatibility, schema contracts, and documentation
- Experience designing scalable, resilient distributed systems using patterns such as Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Retry/Timeout, CQRS, Event-Driven Architecture, Saga/Process Orchestration, and Idempotency
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and web technologies including REST, WebSockets, and JSON
- Hands-on experience designing and building scalable data solutions using SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
- Experience with Agile, SDLC, CI/CD, automation, application resiliency, and security
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience coaching engineers on safe and compliant adoption of AI-assisted development tools
- Presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Experience in banking or financial services
- AWS experience
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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