C#, Python, Rust, SQL Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the CTO Identity & Access Engineering team. You will build trusted, scalable cybersecurity products and serve as a core technical contributor delivering high-quality production code in a secure, compliant environment.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted engineering, enterprise tooling, and adherence to secure coding practices to enhance delivery speed and reliability across global systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years practical experience in software engineering
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more OO languages (C#, Python, Rust)
• Database expertise (1+ SQL platforms) and streaming event driven integrations (Kafka)
• Experience leading use of AI-assisted development tools with team
• Strong understanding of responsible AI in engineering workflows
• Proficient in SDLC including TDD/BDD/Evals
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies (CI/CD, resiliency, security)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry IT systems
• Practical cloud native security management in AWS, Azure or GCP

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment.
• Understands cybersecurity and regulatory controls obligations for a global financial services organization.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Drives adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.
• Applies SDLC tools and AI-assisted development capabilities to improve automation value.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams on architectural designs and applicability.

Skills

Object oriented programming

C#

Python

Rust

SQL

Kafka

AI-assisted development tools

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Secure coding

SDLC

Cloud security

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 CTO Identity & Access Engineering, you are an integral part of an agile security software engineering 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 building critical technology solutions which supports global cybersecurity and technology regulatory controls enabling our businesses to deliver as a leading class financial services

Job responsibilities

• 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. Self starter willing to iterate towards incremental solutions in a fast paced environment.
• Understanding of cybersecurity and regulatory controls obligations for a global financial services organization
• 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more object oriented programming language(s), such as C#, Python or Rust
• Database expertise (1 or more SQL platform) and streaming event driven integrations (kafka)
• 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
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including TDD/BDD/Evals
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native security management experience in AWS, Azure or GCP

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Elastic, or Postgres sql or vector are good to have
• Financial services is good to have