Senior Lead Software Engineer
JPMorgan Chase24 hours ago
Glasgow, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own architecture contracts between UI, backend services, shared libraries, and cloud or compute execution layers.
- Improve execution performance through model start-up latency reduction, instance pools, serverless patterns, and warm executors.
- Govern responsible AI-assisted engineering practices, including validation for correctness, performance, security, and data sensitivity.
- Set standards for testing, CI/CD, secure-by-default practices, observability, and backward-compatible versioning.
- Coordinate contract-first changes across teams, services, shared libraries, APIs, and schemas.
- Mentor engineers, conduct high-signal code reviews, and act as the escalation point for complex production incidents.
- Translate user and business requirements into pragmatic technical roadmaps.
- Design and review multi-service changes for correctness, performance, and maintainability.
- Maintain documented architecture and contract maps for the platform.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and operating production distributed systems as a technical lead.
- Deep expertise in Python, FastAPI/REST, asynchronous patterns, and SQLAlchemy.
- Experience leading enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools for coding, code review, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including secure handling of inputs and outputs and data sensitivity considerations.
- Strong AWS experience with Step Functions, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and managed data services.
- Experience designing and evolving service-to-service contracts without breaking consumers.
- Understanding of automated testing, CI/CD, secrets management, IAM, least privilege, and secure-by-default engineering.
- Ability to lead across teams and communicate with technical and business stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with Databricks, Spark, ML or forecasting execution at scale, and cold-start or warm-compute optimization.
- Preferred familiarity with TypeScript, React micro-frontends, and Module Federation.
- Preferred ownership of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
- Preferred experience with model governance and SDLC approval, audit, and environment-promotion workflows in regulated settings.
- Preferred background in financial services or other compliance-heavy environments.
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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.