Lead Software Engineer - Java, Python

JPMorganChase; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Bengaluru to join the Payments Technology team. You will be an integral part of an agile team delivering trusted, scalable technology products with secure coding practices and AI-assisted engineering adoption.

The role requires strong Java/Python/Go skills, cloud native experience, and leadership in enterprise AI tooling. You will influence product design and engineering standards while ensuring reliability and security across platforms.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of practical experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages like Java, Python, Go.
• Experience leading enterprise‑authorized AI-assisted software development tools and setting team expectations for AI outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering, data sensitivity, security, and resiliency.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little oversight.
• Practical cloud native experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to support the business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews others' code.
• Applies SDLC tools and AI-assisted development to improve automation and quality.
• Drives design decisions affecting product functionality and operations.
• Serves as a subject‑matter expert in one or more focus areas.
• Contributes to engineering community by advocating enterprise frameworks, tools, and practices.
• Executes creative software solutions and troubleshoots with non-routine approaches.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Cloud-native

AI-assisted development

Tools

SDLC toolchain

Code review tools

Job description

Job Description

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

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Payments Technology, 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

• 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
• 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
• Contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life CycleExecutes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• 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 practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) in Java, Python, Go etc
• 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

• Understanding of the core concepts of statistical models (regressions, xgboost etc) and applications of those
• Understanding of core GenAI concepts and howto apply those in reliability settings
• Understanding of agentic systems and how they work in SRE environments to solve reliability problems
• Experience in common ML tools and frameworks such Python, Spark, Air flow and cloud platform. Experience in Cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and certifications