Join us and take your software engineering career to new heights. You'll have the opportunity to lead talented engineers, shape impactful technology products, and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive team culture. At JPMorganChase, we empower you to grow your skills and make a real difference. Be part of a team where your ideas and leadership drive meaningful change. Discover the rewards of building technology that matters.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Finance Technology team in Corporate Technology, you will guide and support a team of engineers to deliver secure, stable, and scalable technology solutions. You will collaborate across teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will lead technical deliverables, drive process improvements, and foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Your leadership will help shape the future of our technology and our team's success.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of software engineers, supporting their growth and technical development
- Ensure successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders, maintaining alignment with business objectives and delivery goals
- Lead and manage large-scale technical deliverables, driving quality outcomes from design through to production
- Execute software solutions across design, development, and technical troubleshooting, setting a high standard for engineering excellence
- Define and lead technology and process implementations to achieve firmwide objectives at regional and global scale
- Identify hidden problems and patterns in data, leveraging insights to drive continuous improvements across systems and processes
- Promote coding hygiene and system architecture enhancements, championing best practices across the team
- Foster a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect, creating an environment where every team member can thrive
- 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
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Proven ability to manage software engineering teams delivering quality software at scale in a large corporate environment
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in coding in one or more languages such as Java or Spark, with experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code
- Knowledge of modern programming and database querying languages, including SQL, relational databases, and NoSQL
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies, including continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security
- Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile)
- Ability to solve data-oriented problems using technologies such as SQL, relational databases, Spark, and NoSQL
- 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:
- Additional formal training or certification in software engineering concepts beyond foundational level
- Exposure to AI tools and technologies for software development and engineering workflows
- Experience with Spark performance tuning for complex calculations on large datasets
- Experience delivering production changes to complex software using Scala and Spark
If you’re ready to lead, innovate, and make an impact, we invite you to join our team and shape the future of finance technology with us.
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
- Proven ability to manage software engineering teams delivering quality software
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in coding in one or more languages such as Java or Spark
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment
- Knowledge of modern programming and database querying languages
- Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Solid grasp of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
- Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, AI, machine learning, mobile)
- Ability to solve data-oriented problems using technologies such as SQL, relational databases, Spark, and NoSQL
- Additional formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- Exposure to AI tools and technologies for software development
- Experience with Spark performance tuning for complex calculations on large datasets
- Experience delivering production changes to complex software using Scala and Spark
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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