Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking Cobranded Cards Team, you will play a crucial role as part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. 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
Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others—leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., LLM-based code generation, automated debugging, test synthesis) to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality.
Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
Designs, builds, and maintains internal tooling and developer platforms that measurably improve engineering productivity, observability, and operational efficiency across teams.
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, including the practical and responsible application of AI/ML techniques in software engineering workflows.
Owns and operates systems that run 24x7 at high traffic scale—including on-call responsibilities, incident response, and post-mortem analysis—with a strong bias toward proactive reliability improvements over reactive firefighting.
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies, including emerging AI tooling and automation strategies.
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 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced in the Java programming language and associated ecosystem.
- Demonstrated AI fluency: ability to effectively use AI coding assistants, prompt engineering, and LLM-based tools to write, review, and debug production code—and the judgment to validate, refactor, and take ownership of AI-generated output.
- Experience designing and shipping internal developer tools, CLIs, dashboards, or platforms that improve team velocity or system visibility.
- Proven track record operating and improving systems with strict uptime requirements (99.9%+ uptime), high request volumes (hundreds of TPS), and complex failure modes—including experience with SLOs, alerting, capacity planning, and graceful degradation.
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, distributed systems, etc.).
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
- 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 banking and credit card ecosystems
- AWS Certification
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
About the TeamOur Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.Skills Required
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced proficiency in Java and associated ecosystem
- Demonstrated AI fluency: effective use of AI coding assistants, prompt engineering, and LLM-based tools for production code
- Experience designing and shipping internal developer tools, CLIs, dashboards, or platforms
- Proven track record operating and improving high-uptime systems (99.9%+), high TPS, SLOs, alerting, capacity planning, graceful degradation
- In-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (cloud, AI/ML, distributed systems)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Experience leading adoption and effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools with validation and security practices
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and coaching engineers on compliant adoption
- Experience with banking and credit card ecosystems
- AWS Certification
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 comprehensive, with on-site clinics, preventive care, and specialized supports such as maternity nurse guidance and fertility treatments. Wellness activities can help offset copays and out-of-pocket costs, reinforcing the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching and additional automatic pay credits reflect strong employer-backed retirement savings. An employee stock purchase plan and related financial programs further bolster long-term financial support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick time, holidays, and generous parental leave are provided alongside family medical leave and adoption/fertility assistance. Additional programs like caregiver support and volunteer time off expand the breadth of time-away options.
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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.
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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