AI-Driven Java Lead Engineer for Enterprise-Scale Systems

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to contribute as part of an agile team, delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable manner.

You will guide design decisions, create internal tooling, and apply AI-assisted development responsibly while ensuring high availability and strong incident response across business functions.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in the Java programming language and associated ecosystem.
• Demonstrated AI fluency: ability to effectively use AI coding assistants, prompt engineering, and LLM-based tools to write, review, and debug production code—and the judgment to validate, refactor, and take ownership of AI-generated output.
• Experience designing and shipping internal developer tools, CLIs, dashboards, or platforms that improve team velocity or system visibility.
• Proven track record operating and improving systems with strict uptime requirements (99.9%+ uptime), high request volumes (hundreds of TPS), and complex failure modes—including experience with SLOs, alerting, capacity planning, and graceful degradation.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, distributed systems, etc.).
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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—leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., LLM-based code generation, automated debugging, test synthesis) to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality.
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Designs, builds, and maintains internal tooling and developer platforms that measurably improve engineering productivity, observability, and operational efficiency across teams.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus, including the practical and responsible application of AI/ML techniques in software engineering workflows.
• Owns and operates systems that run 24x7 at high traffic scale—including on‑call responsibilities, incident response, and post‑mortem analysis—with a strong bias toward proactive reliability improvements over reactive firefighting.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies, including emerging AI tooling and automation strategies.
• 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.

Skills

Java

AI fluency

Dev tooling experience

Distributed systems

High uptime discipline

Leadership / mentorship

Prompt engineering

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

AI-assisted tooling

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to contribute as part of an agile team, delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable manner.

You will guide design decisions, create internal tooling, and apply AI-assisted development responsibly while ensuring high availability and strong incident response across business functions.