Sr. Lead Software Engineer
JPMorgan Chase2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and direction to engineering teams, contractors, and vendors.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others.
- Drive adoption, governance, validation standards, and reuse of approved AI-assisted engineering practices and automation.
- Improve software development lifecycle and technical operations through automation, remediation, and proven engineering patterns.
- Influence product design, application functionality, architecture, and technical processes.
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert and advocate for firmwide engineering frameworks, tools, and practices.
- Lead evaluation sessions with vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical applicability.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Advanced modern front-end development experience with React, including component architecture, state management, performance optimization, and accessible responsive interfaces.
- Hands-on experience modernizing legacy front-end applications, improving build tooling, automating UI testing, and supporting build and release automation.
- Advanced proficiency in Java or Python.
- Experience leading the effective use of AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI practices, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, security, and coaching engineers on compliant adoption.
- Ability to solve design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
- Proficiency across the Software Development Life Cycle and advanced understanding of application resiliency, security, and related engineering practices.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its IT systems, plus practical cloud-native experience.
- Preferred experience with Playwright or similar end-to-end testing tools, D3, Highcharts, or ECharts, analytics-style UIs, backend API integration, large datasets, pagination or virtualization, caching, and error handling.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards and benefits package, with eligibility-based health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation, including cash or forfeitable equity.
- JPMorgan Chase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and physical disabilities.
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.