Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Bengaluru seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the Treasury/CIO Corporate Technology team.

You will be a core technical contributor responsible for building, securing, and scaling trusted market-leading technology products across the asset and liability domain. You will guide teams, review code, and drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, enforcing secure coding, automated testing, and production readiness while aligning with firmwide governance and SDLC

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with system design, app development, testing, and reliability.
• Expertise in Java or Python and AI-assisted development tools.
• Cloud-native experience; AWS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops, enhances and supports the Asset and liability Platform for risk evaluation and business activities.
• Provides technical guidance to support business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Writes secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices with governance, security and testing standards.
• Applies SDLC toolchain knowledge to improve automation and delivery.
• Influences product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in focused areas.
• Contributes to engineering community and firmwide tooling practices.

Skills

Leadership

Java/Python

System design

AI-assisted tooling

Cloud-native

Education

Software engineering training/certification

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Airflow

Kafka

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within theTreasury/Chief Investment Office (T/CIO), Corporate Technology 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

• Develops, enhances and supports our Asset and liability Platform, which is critical to for risk evaluation and other business activities.
• Regularly 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
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• 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
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java/Python 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

• Exposure to cloud technologies using AWS.
• Exposure to Databricks, Airflow, Kafka