Job Description
Are you passionate about building the cloud infrastructure that powers one of the world's most influential financial institutions? At JPMorganChase, we invest in our engineers and give you the tools, scale, and autonomy to solve complex problems that matter. Here, your work doesn't just support a product — it shapes the foundation that thousands of teams rely on every day. Join a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous growth, where your ideas are heard and your contributions make a measurable difference.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Cloud Foundational Services team, you will be a pivotal contributor on an agile team committed to enhancing, developing, and delivering high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will apply your deep technical expertise in cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes to solve complex challenges across a broad range of applications and platforms. Your contributions will directly influence product design, engineering practices, and the cloud infrastructure that underpins the firm's technology ecosystem.
Job responsibilities
- Develop secure, high-quality production code and conduct thorough code reviews and debugging to uphold engineering excellence across the team
- Drive technical decisions that shape product design, application functionality, and operational processes at scale
- Execute software solutions across design, development, and troubleshooting, leveraging Kubernetes and cloud-native experience to move beyond conventional approaches
- Collaborate with cross-functional cloud platform engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient applications on the cloud
- Influence peers and project decision-makers to adopt and apply leading-edge cloud technologies and engineering practices
- Advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle best practices within the engineering community
- Ensure cloud solutions meet security and regulatory compliance requirements, embedding controls throughout the development lifecycle
- Stay current with advancements in cloud technologies and provide recommendations for the adoption and implementation of new tools and approaches
- 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
- Contribute to a team culture that champions diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, with demonstrated experience in Golang
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with considerable depth in cloud, distributed systems, or a related technical discipline
- Practical, hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and its surrounding ecosystem
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large-scale environment using modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies, including continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security practices
- Ability to independently tackle design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight
- 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
- AWS Professional certification
- Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) certification
- Experience managing a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters in an enterprise or production environment
- Familiarity with virtual cluster platforms such as vCluster
- Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
About UsJ.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with advanced applied experience
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including demonstrated experience with Golang
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with considerable depth in cloud, distributed systems, or a related technical discipline
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and its surrounding ecosystem
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in large-scale environments using modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Understanding of agile methodologies, continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security practices
- Ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal oversight
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools for coding, testing, troubleshooting, or documentation
- Ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, resiliency, and security expectations
- Ability to guide peers on safe and effective AI-assisted engineering practices
- AWS Professional certification
- Kubernetes Certified Application Developer certification
- Experience managing a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters in an enterprise or production environment
- Familiarity with virtual cluster platforms such as vCluster
- Background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
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.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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