Sr. Lead Software Engineer

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4 Locations
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
We’re one of the world’s biggest technology-driven companies
The Role
Lead software engineering for secure, scalable technology products within an agile Trust and Security team. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing production code, guiding architecture and product decisions, establishing secure coding and testing standards, governing AI-assisted engineering practices, mentoring engineers, improving automation, and championing enterprise engineering frameworks. The role requires cloud-native delivery experience and supports security, reliability, compliance, and operational excellence across large-scale environments.
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Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that is constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. If you are passionate about solving complex technical challenges, influencing product direction, and helping teams work smarter through modern engineering practices, this role offers the scope, visibility, and growth opportunity you are looking for.

As a Sr Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Trust and Security, 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. You will drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, applying deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. You will serve as a subject matter expert, influence product and architecture decisions, and actively champion engineering excellence across the team.

Job responsibilities

  • Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its engineering teams, contractors, and vendors across complex, multi-technology initiatives
  • Develop secure, high-quality production code and conduct rigorous reviews and debugging of code written by others
  • Drive adoption and governance of approved artificial intelligence-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes — including code review, refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, and incident root-cause analysis
  • Establish measurable validation standards for secure coding, peer review, and automated testing, and promote reuse of proven patterns and automation within the software development lifecycle toolchain
  • Apply knowledge of tools within the software development lifecycle toolchain, including approved artificial intelligence-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale
  • Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, providing mentorship and technical leadership to engineers across the team
  • Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices across the software development lifecycle

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability across large-scale environments
  • Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized artificial intelligence-assisted software development tools, including the ability to set team expectations for validating outputs for correctness, performance, and security
  • Strong understanding of responsible artificial intelligence use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations
  • Experience coaching senior engineers and leads on compliant artificial intelligence usage patterns and controls within the software development lifecycle
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud-native experience delivering production workloads at scale

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Experience working within security or trust platform domains, including identity, access management, or cryptographic services
  • Familiarity with zero-trust architecture principles and their application in enterprise engineering environments
  • Experience contributing to or leading firmwide engineering standards, frameworks, or communities of practice
  • Exposure to regulated industry environments with strong controls, audit requirements, and compliance-driven engineering practices
  • Experience with observability tooling, platform reliability engineering, or site reliability practices in distributed systems

About Us

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 in software engineering concepts
  • At least 5 years of applied software engineering experience
  • Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in large-scale environments
  • Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages
  • Experience leading the effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
  • Knowledge of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations
  • Experience coaching senior engineers and leads on compliant AI usage patterns and controls
  • Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud-native experience delivering production workloads at scale
  • Experience in security or trust platform domains, including identity, access management, or cryptographic services
  • Familiarity with zero-trust architecture principles
  • Experience contributing to or leading engineering standards, frameworks, or communities of practice
  • Experience in regulated industry environments with strong controls, audit requirements, and compliance-driven engineering practices
  • Exposure to observability tooling, platform reliability engineering, or site reliability practices in distributed systems

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.

  • Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage and wellness resources, including mental-health support and wellness incentives, are described as comprehensive and accessible; feedback suggests income-based contributions help keep care affordable.
  • Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 5% of eligible pay, plus additional employer contributions in some cases, is highlighted as a strong pillar of financial security. Feedback suggests this structure is a notable advantage of the total rewards package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, along with fertility, adoption, surrogacy, childcare, and family-support resources, signals a family-forward approach. Feedback suggests these programs are a standout feature of the package.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
Year Founded: 1799

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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