Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/AWS/AI/LLM
JPMorgan Chase1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Design and develop full-stack software solutions aligned with business outcomes.
- Build AI-driven capabilities including LLM-based services, orchestration, and workflow integrations.
- Architect and deliver secure, scalable, resilient cloud-native microservices and APIs.
- Lead adoption and validation standards for enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering tools and practices.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and feedback.
- Establish engineering standards for architecture, coding, testing, and operational readiness.
- Own service reliability practices including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
- Automate remediation and improve observability through logs, metrics, and tracing.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and safe release strategies including canary, blue-green, rollback, and feature-flag approaches.
- Communicate status and risks, manage priorities and dependencies, and collaborate across multiple initiatives.
- Deliver production code primarily in Java and secondarily in Python using AWS and related technologies.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in Software Engineering and at least five years of applied experience building production systems.
- Strong production system design, application development, operational stability, on-call, and incident-ownership skills.
- Expertise with microservices, APIs, data technologies, and integration patterns.
- Hands-on experience building cloud-native systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, concurrency, idempotency, failure modes, and performance tuning.
- Ability to influence product design and technical direction through pragmatic architectures, tradeoffs, and engineering standards.
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools and validating AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Experience leading team adoption of approved AI-assisted development practices across coding, code review, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and generative AI use cases including RAG, summarization, extraction, and workflow assistants.
- Understanding of responsible AI practices, data sensitivity, safe input and output handling, resiliency, and security.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to deliver across multiple initiatives.
- Preferred: AWS cloud certification and AI/ML or GenAI certification, or equivalent practical experience delivering LLM-enabled capabilities.
- Preferred: advanced Java proficiency, working Python knowledge, Docker, Kubernetes, modern CI/CD, multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime releases.
- Preferred: experience delivering scalable, reliable, secure products in regulated environments; financial-services technology and IVR/CCaaS experience are a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with eligibility for commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, including cash or forfeitable equity.
- Comprehensive health care coverage and on-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Equal opportunity employer that provides reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and physical disabilities.
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About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.