Lead Software Engineer-Golang

JPMorganChase; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Bengaluru seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive the design, development, and delivery of secure, scalable technology products within the Infrastructure Platforms team.

You will contribute as a core technical member, advancing solutions across multiple areas to support the firm’s objectives and maintain high operational stability. Strong cloud, AI tooling, and coding proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 5+ years applied experience in software development.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages (Go/Java).
• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools for coding, review, and testing.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Build and operate cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes on at least one cloud provider.
• Develop services primarily in Go and/or Java.
• Produce secure, high-quality production code aligned to best practices.
• Review and debug code written by others with consistent validation standards.

Skills

Go/Java proficiency

Kubernetes

Cloud-native development

AI-assisted development

Secure coding

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

Job Description:

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems


• Build and operate cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes with strong systems fundamentals, on at least one cloud provider (AWS / GCP / Azure)


• Develop services primarily in Golang and/or Java (either or both)


• Produce secure, high-quality production code aligned to engineering best practices


• Review and debug code written by others while enforcing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing)


• Drive consistent validation practices across the team to improve overall code quality and delivery outcomes


• Promote reuse of effective patterns and scalable approaches across the team to improve engineering efficiency


• Identify and implement opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability, and lead evaluation sessions with external vendors/startups and internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical fit within existing systems and information architecture


• 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



• 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 practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)


• 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


• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle


• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security


• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems


• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Spec Drive Development (SDD) experience is a plus


• Strong AI tool usage fluency (comfortable leveraging AI tools in day-to-day engineering workflows)


• Prior understanding of Cloud Governance is a plus