As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector-Infrastructure Platforms, 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.
Job responsibilities
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting for virtualized cluster lifecycle automation.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and decommissioning using Platform APIs
- 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.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability
- Lead production-grade deployments, own technical solutions, diagnose issues using structure troubleshooting methods.
- Work with large-scale infrastructure projects
- Document design decisions to enhance auditability.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance that elevates engineering standards.
- Collaborate, influence, and partner with peers across global teams.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong fundamentals in system design: API design, data modeling, testing strategy, and operational stability.
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python building scalable server-side services.
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (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 senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
- Solid understanding of virtualization automation (VM lifecycle and resource concepts: CPU, memory, storage, networking).
- Hands-on experience automating OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and Day-2 operations (upgrades, configuration management, policy/compliance alignment).
- Experience developing and maintaining automated workflows in complex distributed environments; strong troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with workflow orchestration at scale (Temporal strongly preferred; similar orchestration acceptable)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Hands-on experience with virtualization automation (VM lifecycle and resource concepts: CPU, memory, storage, networking).
- Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
- Familiarity with hypervisor environments (VMware ESXi, OpenShift, KVM).
- Cloud-native experience (containers, CI/CD, observability, reliability engineering).
- Passion for innovation, AI, and continuous improvement.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in system design, including API design, data modeling, testing strategy, and operational stability
- Proficiency building scalable server-side services with Go, Java, or Python
- Experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
- Ability to validate AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations
- Experience coaching senior engineers or leads on compliant AI usage patterns and controls
- Understanding of virtualization automation and VM lifecycle resource concepts
- Hands-on experience automating OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and Day-2 operations
- Experience developing and maintaining automated workflows in complex distributed environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience with workflow orchestration at scale; Temporal strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience with virtualization automation
- Track record mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards
- Familiarity with VMware ESXi, OpenShift, or KVM hypervisor environments
- Cloud-native experience with containers, CI/CD, observability, or reliability engineering
- Passion for innovation, AI, and continuous improvement
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.
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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.
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