Lead Software Engineer - Python & Java, AWS, Terraform(Data Engineer)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase, Hyderabad-based, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to advance trusted technology in the Fraud Protection domain. You will join an agile team delivering secure, scalable products in Payments Trust and Safety Technology, shaping performance, reliability, and rapid delivery.

You will lead design, develop production-grade code, and mentor engineers while adopting AI-assisted practices and enterprise tooling to improve quality and speed of delivery.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 8+ years applied experience.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

CI/CD

Security

Performance

GitHub Copilot

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Kafka

ECS/EKS

S3

Aurora Postgres

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 JPMorganChase within the Payments Trust and Safety Technologygroup, 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. You will be part of the Fraud Protection group, building solutions for merchants to protect themselves against fraudulent behavior. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Monitor and collect performance statistics, analyzing product performance and scalability across diverse hardware, software, and configurations
• Serve as performance advisors within teams to ensure performance considerations are integrated into development practices, optimizing infrastructure scalability
• Influence leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
• Proactively anticipate and identify issues that could negatively impact performance, working to eliminate or mitigate them
• Plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons
• Design, develop, and implement tools to automate performance measurement and analysis
• 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 8+ years applied experience
• 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced hands on development experience in Python, Java, Spring boot, Aurora Postgres, S3, Terraform
• Experience with AWS Services such as Glue, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, EC2, Kafka, NLB
• Experience with Databases
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience working with AI agents/copilots for engineering
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong enterprise architecture design concepts to allow for unified user experience leveraging data sharing capabilities with API
• Case management workflow and orchestration to serve as the backbone of a unified user experience across multiple cross-functional teams
• Vibe coding experience and conceptual knowledge while leveraging developer assistant tools like GitHub Copilot to allow for efficiency gains