Lead Software Engineer - Python, Gen AI

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Bengaluru seeks a Manager of Software Engineering within Corporate Technology. You will lead multiple teams and manage day-to-day implementation activities, ensuring adherence to compliance standards, business requirements, and best practices.

You will drive automation, AI-assisted development, and scalable production services, with strong focus on security, data governance, and cross-team coordination across large developer communities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in software engineering with 8+ years of experience.
• Expertise in at least one technology stack and production software delivery.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, AWS/other clouds, and Big Data/ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, and deliver automation to reduce manual work and streamline remediation.
• Govern application risk, controls, and compliance with firm standards and risk partners.
• Own security and data accountability for the application, including authentication, authorization, and data lifecycle.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS/cloud platforms

Big Data/ETL pipelines

Java/Python/Scala

AI-assisted development

Security/compliance

Observability (Grafana/Datadog/Prom)

CI/CD tools (Jenkins/GitLab/Terraform)

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent

Tools

Grafana

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

• Apply Before 10/30/2026, 04:00 AM
• Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

As Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology, you lead multiple teams and manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team’s work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices.

Job responsibilities

• Design, code, test, and deliver automation(including LLMs/agents) to eliminate manual operational work and streamline AO workstreams’ remediations (e.g., control items, security vulnerabilities, upgrades, and FARM findings).
• Govern application risk, controls, and compliance:own adherence to firm standards, partner with Technology Risk & Controls, manage Technology Lifecyle Management (TLM), and drive closure of issues/findings (e.g., FARM) through effective remediation and evidence management.
• Own security and data accountability for the application:ensure strong authentication/authorization, vulnerability and certificate hygiene, and proper data registration/classification plus compliant storage/retention/disposal.
• Coordinate across product and engineering at scaleto prioritize and drive execution with a clear sense of urgency for AO workstreams (including influencing/coaching teams and aligning execution across large developer communities).
• Leads team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and SDLC/TLM automation to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes, while setting expectations for human validation, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and consistent use of reusable patterns across teams.
• 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 and support capacity unlock initiatives.
• Run resilient, well-operated production services end-to-end:implement monitoring/logging and anomaly detection, maintain secure network configurations/least privilege, and lead/support incident/problem/change management and recovery/resiliency readiness.
• Demonstrates and champions site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
• Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team’s applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
• Collaborates with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and stakeholders to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers
• Documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities of practice

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a software engineering discipline with8+ yearsof experience.
• Expertise in at least one technology stack with a track record of designing, coding, testing, and delivering production software.
• Strong experience withKubernetes,AWS/other cloud platforms, andBig Data/ETL pipelines(e.g., Hortonworks/AWS), including scalable data processing solutions.
• Strong development experience inJava, Python, or Scala, with excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills for complex production issues.
• Experience leading responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools across engineering teams, including defining ways of working (review/validation expectations), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of data.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and governance expectations; ability to coach engineers on compliant and effective usage.
• Working knowledge of core infrastructure components (routers, load balancers, cloud products, containers, compute, storage, networks) and ability to solve complex, mission-critical problems across domains.
• Deep proficiency inSRE best practices: reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, and toil reduction; able to implement within an application or platform.
• Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines.
• Proficiency inobservability(white/black box monitoring, SLO alerting, telemetry collection) using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
• Proficiency inCI/CDtools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform), plus ability to troubleshoot networking issues, solve data structure/algorithm problems, teach new languages, and collaborate across stakeholder levels.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills