Senior Lead Software Engineer - Agentic AI/Java/Python
JPMorgan Chase4 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, and maintain secure, high-quality production software and agentic AI systems.
- Create architecture and design artifacts for complex applications and ensure software implementations meet design constraints.
- Build Chase AI components including Chase Agent, Agent Operating Memory, Domain Agents, Agentic Experience Service, and Assurance.
- Develop MCP servers and MCP-compatible tools or adapters, production APIs, services, and typed contracts.
- Analyze large and diverse datasets, identify patterns, and create visualizations and reporting to improve applications and system architecture.
- Collaborate with product, design, operations, and other cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering tools for coding, code review, testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Establish standards for validating AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, security, privacy, and resilience.
- Promote responsible and compliant AI use, including secure handling of sensitive data and coaching engineers on safe adoption.
- Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and evaluate emerging technologies.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience, including at least 2 years building complex scalable applications or agentic systems.
- Hands-on experience building agentic systems with LLMs or SLMs.
- Experience setting up and maintaining MCP servers and building MCP-compatible tools or adapters.
- Proficiency in Java and/or Python.
- Experience building production services with Spring AI, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, FastAPI, or Flask, including typed contracts, testing, and packaging.
- Strong AWS experience with ECS or EKS, Docker, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CodeBuild.
- Strong API design skills with REST, OpenAPI, and gRPC, plus familiarity with observability tools and platforms.
- Understanding of LLM patterns including function calling, tools, RAG, prompt management, context windows, token budgeting, and safety guardrails.
- Experience with unit, integration, and load testing plus evaluation datasets for agents.
- Experience leading approved AI-assisted software development practices and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Understanding of responsible AI engineering workflows, data sensitivity, secure input/output handling, resiliency, and security expectations.
- Preferred experience includes distributed LLM orchestration, graph-based flows, retries, fallbacks, guardrails, safe rollout strategies, human-in-the-loop review, continuous evaluation, canary rollouts, API gateways, service mesh, multi-region availability, disaster recovery, privacy, regulatory compliance, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
- Preferred leadership in technical communities, open source contributions, or industry forums.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location; eligible roles may also receive commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation.
- Comprehensive health care coverage and access to 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.