Lead Software Engineer
JPMorgan ChaseBase Salary
$157k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Apply software development lifecycle expertise to design, develop, troubleshoot, review, and debug production software.
- Build reusable services and high-throughput, multithreaded platforms using secure, scalable engineering practices.
- Lead feature design and development, identify new capabilities, and help shape program strategy and direction.
- Develop AI-enabled and agentic workflows, including tool-using agents, orchestration patterns, evaluation, and guardrails.
- Improve operational stability by identifying and automating remediation of recurring application and system issues.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance on reliability, performance, risk, cybersecurity, legal, and compliance requirements.
- Partner with stakeholders and application teams to promote engineering best practices and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience.
- Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
- Extensive Java development experience, version 8 or higher, with Spring or a similar framework.
- Experience with Test Driven Development using JUnit.
- Expertise in data structures, algorithms, and multithreaded programming.
- Experience developing mission-critical, high-throughput, high-performance platforms and reusable services.
- Experience with enterprise data security and encryption.
- Experience with Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes, PowerMock, JMeter, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Sonar, Fortify, Black Duck, Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence.
- Experience leading approved AI-assisted software development practices and validating AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations.
- Preferred experience with cloud-native application development using AWS, GCP, or private cloud.
- Ability to influence architecture and design across distributed systems and work effectively in large collaborative teams.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with benefits eligibility determined by role and circumstances.
- Comprehensive health care coverage and on-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Eligible roles may include commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation, including cash or forfeitable equity.
- Equal opportunity employer offering reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and physical disabilities.
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About JPMorgan Chase
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. We serve millions of customers and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients daily, managing assets and investments, offering business advice and strategies, and providing innovative banking solutions and services. Social Media Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/JPMCSocialTerms JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.