We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. At JPMorganChase, we build technology that matters — solutions that empower our risk managers, protect the firm, and shape the future of financial services. Joining our Market Risk Technology team means working at the intersection of engineering excellence and real-world financial impact, where your contributions are visible, valued, and meaningful. Here, you'll grow alongside talented engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and help define what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer (Vice President) at JPMorganChase within the Market Risk 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. Our team develops the firm's strategic calculation, time series, and scenario management platforms for Firmwide Market Risk — integrating with front-office risk management systems to give risk managers the capability to assess the financial impact of adverse market scenarios at a firm-wide level.
Job responsibilities
- Interface closely with business stakeholders, quantitative research analysts, and upstream and downstream technology teams across the firm to deliver well-integrated, high-quality solutions
- Execute creative software solutions across design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond conventional approaches to break down complex technical problems
- Develop secure, high-quality production code while reviewing and debugging code written by others to maintain engineering excellence
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve the overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Lead Python service and API design and delivery for risk workflows, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with architectural standards
- Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented assessment of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability within existing systems
- 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
- Build AI-enhanced user features — including search, summarization, and explanation capabilities — with a human-in-the-loop approach to ensure correctness, security, and compliance
- Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Advanced development experience in Python, Java, or another object-oriented programming language
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle, including automation and continuous delivery methods
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security practices
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline such as cloud, artificial intelligence, or machine learning
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its technology systems
- Practical cloud-native development experience
- Experience communicating effectively with both business-facing customers and technical teams
- 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
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies and UI development patterns
- Familiarity with large language model application patterns, including embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails, with experience productizing AI features
- Experience working in financial services or risk technology environments
- Exposure to market risk concepts such as Value at Risk, stress testing, or scenario analysis
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- Advanced development experience in Python, Java, or another object-oriented programming language
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency across the software development lifecycle, including automation and continuous delivery
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies, continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security practices
- Proficiency in software applications and technical processes involving cloud, artificial intelligence, or machine learning
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its technology systems
- Practical cloud-native development experience
- Experience communicating with business-facing customers and technical teams
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies and UI development patterns
- Familiarity with large language model application patterns, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails
- Experience productizing AI features
- Experience working in financial services or risk technology environments
- Exposure to market risk concepts such as Value at Risk, stress testing, or scenario analysis
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 — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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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