Lead Software Engineer

ENGINEERINGUK; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Bengaluru is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to accelerate digital product delivery within Consumer and Community Banking Digital Channels Public. You will be a core technical contributor and people leader on an agile team.

Responsibilities include designing and delivering innovative software, building secure production code, and driving AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on software development, strong Java and Spring

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• 5+ years of applied software development experience.
• Hands-on system design and application development experience.
• Proficiency in Java.
• Experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs and OAuth2/JWT security.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver innovative software solutions and complex troubleshooting.
• Build secure, high-quality production code; review, debug, and improve code written by others.
• Identify and automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability and resiliency.
• Lead evaluations with external vendors, startups, and internal teams on architecture, technical fit, and alignment with enterprise information architecture.
• Lead and contribute to engineering communities of practice to promote adoption of modern technologies.
• Foster a team culture rooted in diversity, inclusion, opportunity, and respect.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

React TypeScript

Agentic AI

AI-assisted development tools

Engineering maturity

Observability

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

JVM

Terraform/CloudFormation

CI/CD

JUnit/Mockito

Testcontainers

Kafka/SQS

Job description

We offer an opportunity to accelerate your career through challenging, high-impact work where you can push the boundaries of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking Digital Channels Public, you will be a key member of an agile team delivering secure, stable, and scalable technology products. As a core technical contributor and people leader, you will drive critical solutions across multiple technical areas and business functions in support of the firm's objectives.

Sector Technology Role Manager Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

Job Responsibilities

• Design and deliver innovative software solutions, including complex troubleshooting that goes beyond standard approaches.
• Build secure, high-quality production code; review, debug, and improve code written by others.
• Identify and automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability and resiliency.
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architecture, technical fit, and alignment with enterprise information architecture.
• Lead and contribute to engineering communities of practice to promote adoption of modern and leading-edge technologies.
• Foster a team culture rooted in diversity, inclusion, opportunity, and respect.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages.
• Hands on experience in Java: Core Java, concurrency, JVM fundamentals, clean code, design patterns.
• Strong experience in Spring Boot: REST APIs, Spring Data JPA, transactions, validation, OAuth2/JWT security, testing (JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers).
• Proficient in AWS: IAM/KMS, VPC fundamentals, ECS/EKS or Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB/Redis (as needed), CloudWatch, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD.
• React (TypeScript): hooks, component architecture, state management, routing, API integration/auth, testing (RTL/Jest, Cypress/Playwright).
• Agentic AI: tool/function calling, RAG fundamentals, agent patterns (planner-executor/ReAct), evaluation/monitoring, prompt-injection defense, PII safeguards.
• Engineering maturity: microservices, messaging (Kafka/SQS), observability (logs/metrics/tracing), SLOs/on-call, design docs, mentoring.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (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 engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices