Software Engineering Lead - Infrastructure Platforms

Next Frontier Capital; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is building a new Dublin engineering hub and seeks a Technical Lead in Infrastructure Platforms. You will lead a small, senior team, own production systems end-to-end, and set architecture and engineering standards in an AI-native environment.

You'll guide platform domain choices, drive reliability and cost-efficiency, and partner with stakeholders across the infrastructure organization to shape the future of enterprise infrastructure at scale.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering with production coding in Python/Go/Java/C++/Rust.
• Experience building and operating enterprise infrastructure domains.
• Production systems at scale including on-call ownership and reliability.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and setting technical direction.
• Strong systems thinking including interfaces, contracts and failure modes.
• Ability to direct AI tools for real engineering work.
• Security-first mindset with risk judgment from design through production.
• Clear, direct communication with engineers, stakeholders, and peers.
• Outcome orientation with focus on impact, reliability, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a small team of senior engineers, fostering a high-performance, high-ownership culture.
• Own the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise-scale infrastructure services from architecture through production.
• Write and review production code, maintaining a hands-on approach and setting the bar for engineering quality.
• Establish AI-native engineering practices with robust validation standards to ensure speed never compromises correctness.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and act as an escalation point for production incidents, building operability and observability from the start.
• Analyze and optimize systems for scalability, efficiency, reliability, and performance.
• Decompose ambiguous problems into clear, executable work for both engineers and AI agents.
• Define success criteria, measure impact, and hold the team accountable to outcomes.
• Partner with stakeholders across the infrastructure organization, resolving technical disagreements and proactively raising risks.
• Apply security and operational-risk judgment throughout the engineering lifecycle.

Skills

Software engineering

Production coding

Infrastructure domain

On-call ownership

Mentoring engineers

Systems thinking

AI-tools direction

Security-first

Communication

Job description

Join us as we launch a new engineering hub in Dublin, where you’ll shape the future of enterprise infrastructure. Here, you’ll lead a small, high-impact team and set the technical culture from the ground up. We work AI-native from day one, empowering you to focus on solving complex problems and driving innovation. Your leadership will influence engineering practices across the firm. If you’re passionate about building and want your work to scale, this is your opportunity.

As a Technical Lead in Infrastructure Platforms at JPMorgan Chase within our Dublin engineering hub, you will lead a small, senior team designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale infrastructure platforms. You will be a hands‑on technical leader, owning production systems end-to-end, setting architecture and engineering standards, and fostering the growth of your team. You’ll work AI-native across the software development lifecycle, ensuring correctness, security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. You’ll be matched to a platform domain that fits your expertise and help establish our engineering culture.

You’ll have the opportunity to join one of several high-impact teams, each focused on building critical capabilities for the firm. Whether you’re engineering self‑service agentic development environments, shaping a database‑wide control plane, creating an enterprise data lake, automating end‑to‑end workflows, enhancing the discoverability of infrastructure assets, or advancing automation platforms, your work will drive innovation and scale across JPMorganChase. You’ll collaborate with talented peers, tackle complex technical challenges, and help define the future of our infrastructure platforms.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a small team of senior engineers, fostering a high-performance, high-ownership culture
• Own the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise-scale infrastructure services from architecture through production
• Write and review production code, maintaining a hands‑on approach and setting the bar for engineering quality
• Establish AI-native engineering practices with robust validation standards to ensure speed never compromises correctness
• Participate in an on‑call rotation and act as an escalation point for production incidents, building operability and observability from the start
• Analyze and optimize systems for scalability, efficiency, reliability, and performance
• Decompose ambiguous problems into clear, executable work for both engineers and AI agents
• Define success criteria, measure impact, and hold the team accountable to outcomes
• Partner with stakeholders across the infrastructure organization, resolving technical disagreements and proactively raising risks
• Apply security and operational‑risk judgment throughout the engineering lifecycle

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Hands‑on software engineering background with production coding experience in an industry‑standard language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++, Rust)
• Deep experience building and operating systems in at least one infrastructure domain (cloud, networking, compute, storage, security, or data infrastructure)
• Experience running production systems at scale, including on‑call ownership, incident response, and designing for reliability and operability
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and setting technical direction
• Strong systems thinking, including interfaces, contracts, failure modes, and interactions at scale
• Ability to direct AI tools for real engineering work, with sound judgment on where AI applies and where human expertise is required
• Security‑first mindset, integrating risk judgment from design through production
• Clear, direct communication with engineers, stakeholders, and peers
• Outcome orientation, focused on impact, reliability, and cost
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and greenfield scope
• Inclusive, collaborative leadership style, able to attract, grow, and retain strong senior engineers

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience across multiple infrastructure domains or programming languages
• Track record of reducing operational toil and cost through automation and better engineering
• Experience adopting AI-native engineering practices at team or organizational scale
• Prior experience in regulated or large‑scale enterprise environments
• Experience with greenfield builds and establishing engineering culture
• Ability to influence engineering patterns beyond the immediate team

Why Join Us?

You’ll build a frontier engineering team from scratch, delivering outsized impact with a small, senior group. The patterns you set in Dublin—how AI-native teams design, build, and operate at enterprise scale—will influence engineering practices across the firm. We progress people based on the quality of their engineering and the impact of their decisions, not span of control. Join a team where building takes precedence over maintenance, and where your work scales across the firm.

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.

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

Lead a senior team building AI-native, enterprise‑scale infrastructure platforms and set the technical culture for our new Dublin hub.