Lead Software Engineer

Overview

In this role you lead and contribute to the development of cloud-native, microservices-based payment technology solutions within JPMorgan Chase. You work across disciplines to deliver secure, scalable software that supports the bank’s commercial and investment objectives, while driving adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and modern architectural patterns.

You partner with cross-functional teams to reduce outages, improve performance, and evolve production systems. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on high-impact delivery within a trusted, enterprise-grade technology environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver cloud-native, microservices-based applications
• Build secure, production-ready code and review peers’ code
• Model domain concepts to create clear, evolvable software
• Automate remediation and improve operational stability
• Lead communities of practice and promote new technologies
• Adopt enterprise AI-assisted development practices with validated standards
• Apply SDLC tooling and automation to increase value and speed
• Design scalable architectures with zero-downtime releases and resilient data performance
• Drive continuous technology updates and avoid single points of failure

Key requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with hands-on experience in system design, development, testing, and production support
• Proficiency in back-end technologies (Java, Python Springboot, Node.js) and front-end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Angular) for full-stack roles
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), RESTful APIs, web services, WebSockets, JSON
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable SQL and NoSQL databases
• Ability to solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision
• Experience leading AI-assisted software development tools adoption and setting validation standards
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, security, resiliency
• Proficiency in automation and CI/CD, and agile methodologies
• Experience in banking domain is a plus
• AWS certification is a plus
• Presenting and negotiating
• Mentoring and stakeholder management
• Strong problem-solving and communication
• Java
• Python
• Springboot

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