Sr Lead Software Engineer - Java / Python
JPMorgan Chase2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and direction to engineering teams, contractors, and vendors.
- Develop secure, scalable, maintainable, and 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.
- Use Software Development Life Cycle tooling and approved AI-assisted capabilities to improve engineering automation at scale.
- Influence product design, application functionality, technical operations, and engineering processes.
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert and advocate for firmwide engineering frameworks, tools, and practices.
- Mentor engineers and promote technology modernization and innovation through AI-enabled engineering practices.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Deep expertise designing, developing, and modernizing large-scale enterprise applications with emphasis on scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Strong hands-on development experience with multiple programming languages, including Java and Python.
- Expertise in modern software architecture, distributed systems, API-first design, event-driven architecture, cloud-native development, domain-driven design, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Practical experience with AI-driven software engineering, AI-assisted development tools, GenAI applications, AI agents, agentic AI frameworks, prompt engineering, and Model Context Protocol integrations.
- Ability to establish engineering practices covering secure software development, architecture governance, automated testing, observability, code quality, and responsible AI adoption.
- Experience leading enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, security, and compliant usage controls.
- Preferred experience with React, Node.js, responsive design, reusable component architectures, AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native engineering.
- Preferred experience designing AI-powered solutions, agent orchestration frameworks, MCP-enabled integrations, RAG architectures, and enterprise-scale automation platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards and benefits package, with details provided during the hiring process.
- Benefits may include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- The role is subject to enhanced pre-hire screening, including criminal and credit background checks where permitted by law, because it is designated as a High Risk Role.
- JPMorganChase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations.
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.