Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/AWS/AI/LLM
JPMorgan Chase1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex full-stack initiatives from concept through production launch.
- Set technical direction, define target architecture, make roadmap-level decisions, and align designs with business priorities.
- Architect and deliver secure, scalable, resilient cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Build LLM-based services, orchestration, and integrations into business workflows.
- Establish team practices for AI-assisted engineering, validation, secure coding, peer review, automated testing, and reusable patterns.
- Define and enforce engineering standards for coding, APIs, testing, dependencies, documentation, and operational readiness.
- Own reliability outcomes, including SLIs, SLOs, incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
- Lead observability and operational automation using logs, metrics, tracing, alerts, runbooks, and auto-remediation.
- Improve CI/CD and safe delivery practices, including quality gates, canary or blue-green releases, feature flags, and rollback strategies.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers through technical coaching, architecture reviews, and feedback.
- Communicate risks, tradeoffs, priorities, and dependencies across stakeholders and initiatives.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts plus 5+ years of applied experience, in addition to 7+ years building production systems and leading complex initiatives.
- Strong system design, application development, operational stability, on-call readiness, and incident management experience.
- Expertise designing microservices and RESTful APIs, with strong knowledge of data technologies and integration patterns.
- Hands-on production experience building and operating cloud-native systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, concurrency, idempotency, failure modes, and performance tuning.
- Ability to influence technical direction, propose pragmatic architectures and tradeoffs, and work within security, controls, and SDLC expectations.
- Experience using and leading team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and generative AI use cases such as RAG, summarization, extraction, and workflow assistants.
- Understanding of responsible AI practices, data sensitivity, safe input and output handling, resiliency, security, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- AWS cloud certification and AI/ML or GenAI certification are preferred, or equivalent practical experience delivering LLM-enabled capabilities.
- Advanced Java proficiency and working knowledge of Python are preferred.
- Docker, Kubernetes, modern CI/CD, multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime release experience are preferred.
- Experience delivering scalable, reliable, and secure products in regulated environments is preferred; financial services technology and IVR/CCaaS familiarity are a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with eligibility for commission-based pay 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.
- Additional compensation and benefits details are provided during the hiring process.
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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.