Sr. Lead Software Engineer
JPMorgan Chase2 days ago
Base Salary
$176k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and direction to product and engineering teams.
- Own end-to-end solution and product architecture, including target-state designs, integration patterns, APIs, data flows, and non-functional requirements.
- Drive architectural trade-offs involving security, resiliency, performance, cost, time-to-market, dependencies, and technical risk.
- Establish and govern reference architectures, design patterns, reusable components, and architectural guardrails.
- Partner with product management on roadmaps, product design, architectural investments, and technical debt reduction.
- Guide solution design and implementation across teams and conduct design and code reviews.
- Drive adoption and validation of approved AI-assisted engineering practices, including code review, refactoring, testing, release readiness, and incident analysis.
- Apply SDLC and toolchain expertise in CI/CD, testing, automation, observability, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for firmwide engineering frameworks, tools, and practices.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Strong experience owning solution or platform architecture and system design for distributed systems.
- Experience designing and delivering microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures such as Kafka-based systems.
- Hands-on cloud-native engineering experience across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with strong AWS expertise.
- Experience building reusable APIs, services, frameworks, and reference architectures and scaling their adoption through standardization and self-service enablement.
- Experience partnering with engineering leaders to review designs, evaluate alternatives, establish guardrails, and promote approved patterns.
- Experience with Java, Python, and React or comparable technologies, including code review and implementation assessment.
- Experience using approved AI-assisted engineering tools and validating outputs for correctness, performance, security, and responsible AI controls.
- Strong judgment, communication, stakeholder management, and ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies and recommend approaches for future-state architecture.
- Preferred: experience building and leveraging AI agents and reusable production components.
- Preferred: banking or financial services expertise and familiarity with regulatory and controls environments.
- Preferred: experience with formal architecture governance frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience driving large-scale platformization, shared services, standardization, self-service adoption, and reusable reference architectures.
- Preferred: expertise with Redis, Memcached, Airflow, or Temporal.
- Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation in cash or forfeitable equity.
- Comprehensive health care coverage and on-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan and backup childcare.
- Tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Additional compensation and benefits details are provided during the hiring process.
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.