Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Dublin seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Employee Platforms Team. You will drive design, development, and delivery of trusted, scalable technology products in a secure environment.

You will provide technical leadership, apply AI-assisted development practices, and mentor engineers while collaborating across functions to improve code quality and operational stability.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience delivering design, development, testing, and operations.
• Advanced in Python and exposure to enterprise AI-assisted tooling.
• Experience leading teams and setting expectations for AI outputs.
• Strong understanding of secure coding, testing, and deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business teams, contractors and vendors.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review peers' work.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and governance.
• Improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes across SDLC.
• Apply knowledge of SDLC tools and automation to scale value.
• Influence product design, functionality, and technical operations.
• Act as a subject-matter expert and advocate firmwide engineering frameworks.

Skills

Python

Node.js

React

Cloud native

Code review

Tools

AI-assisted development tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

• Locations 200 Capital Dock, 79 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin, IE-D, D02 RK57, IE
• Job Schedule Full time
• Regulated role: Fitness and Probity Regime Ireland (CF/PCF)? No

Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Employee Platforms Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities

Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.

Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus

Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience

Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Python

Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security

Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.

Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Node.js/React frontend isa plus.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.