Lead Software Engineer - Terraform, Python, Kubernetes

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Bengaluru, Karnataka, seeks a Lead Software Engineer with Terraform, Python and Kubernetes expertise to join Securities Services Technology. You will design, implement, and scale trusted financial software with a focus on security, reliability, and cloud-native practices.

You will lead technical contributions, review code, and drive AI-assisted development, automation, and continuous delivery across multi-team initiatives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience and formal training or certification.

Responsibilities

• Develops secure, scalable software solutions across cloud platforms.
• Leads design, development, testing, and deployment of production-grade code.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and automated testing.
• Collaborates with vendors, teams, and data scientists to align architecture.
• Ensures security, resiliency, and operational stability of applications.

Skills

Python

AWS

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Security

AI-assisted tooling

Leadership

Kubernetes

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

SageMaker

Bedrock

EKS

Kafka

Job description

Lead Software Engineer - Terraform, Python, Kubernetes

Job Information

• Job Identification 210767444
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank
• Job Schedule Full time

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 responsibilities

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Securities Services 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.

• 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
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• 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.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Extensive experience in building and running AWS/public cloud based applications
• Solid programming skills with Python
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience of pipelines and DAG's (Directed Acyclic graph) for processing data and/or machine learning
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT system.
• 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerized application development
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and AWS services such as S3, EKS, SageMaker, and Bedrock
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Kafka, MLOps and Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)
• Experience working on AIML systems and/or prior experience collaborating with data scientists