Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you play a vital role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a key technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains within various business functions, supporting the firm's business objectives. You will join a small, self-directed team of 4-6 engineers where every voice is valued and each member contributes equally. Together, you will explore innovative ideas, develop rapid prototypes, and shape the future of developer tools, including GenAI, data science, mobile development, and cybersecurity. Collaborating closely with Tech Leads, you will transform vision into functional code through swift, hands-on experimentation.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Sharp problem-solving and system-thinking skills
• Strong coding skills in Java or C++ and Python
• Experience with developer tools, SDKs, plugins, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools
• Comfort working independently in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment
• Fluency with AI-assisted dev tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bonus: exposure to GenAI, LLMs, or agent-based systems