Director of AI‑Native HR Software Engineering

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New Jersey seeks a Director of Software Engineering to provide hands‑on technical leadership across multiple application teams within Corporate Technology – HR, Pay & Time Technology.

You will architect and build highly scalable, serverless solutions on AWS for Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Time, spanning Web, Mobile, and conversational interfaces. The role emphasizes multi‑region, active‑active resiliency, AI‑native development, secure‑by‑design practices, and

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 10+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
• Deep, current, hands‑on expertise developing on AWS with serverless design patterns (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Step Functions).
• Expert in designing and operating multi‑region active‑active applications with high‑availability, resiliency, and disaster‑recovery patterns.
• Strong programming expertise in Java with the Spring Boot and broader Spring framework, and in Python with modern frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Flask).
• Demonstrated experience with AI‑native development—agentic workflows, prompt engineering, and loop engineering—using tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or similar
• Experience building MCP servers and custom agents integrated with conversational/chatbot platforms (e.g., Moveworks).
• Strong command of CI/CD, test‑driven development (TDD), Infrastructure as Code, and Pipeline as Code, with automated testing and security embedded in pipelines.
• Domain experience building applications across Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, or Time
• Experience leading adoption of agentic AI‑enabled engineering practices across teams, including defining operating expectations and measuring outcomes.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Architects, builds, and operates custom, highly scalable applications on AWS using serverless design patterns, delivering mission‑critical Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Time capabilities.
• Designs and runs multi-region active‑active applications engineered for continuous availability—resilient, self‑healing, and built to never go down—for a large, regulated, globally distributed enterprise
• Leads hands‑on development across the full stack—Web, Mobile, and conversational chat—building robust services with Java and Spring Boot, Python, and modern front‑end frameworks, and setting standards for clean, secure, testable, and maintainable code
• Drives AI‑native engineering: agentic development workflows, prompt and loop engineering, and AI‑assisted development with Claude Code, Copilot, or similar tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining strong controls
• Builds MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and custom agents that drive accurate, low‑latency interactions with conversational platforms such as Moveworks—engineered for high accuracy and no hallucinations through grounding, tool/function calling, and guardrails
• Establishes and enforces modern engineering practices—CI/CD, test‑driven development (TDD), Infrastructure as Code, Pipeline as Code, automated security scanning, and observability
• Manages and continuously innovates across a portfolio of applications, balancing rapid, iterative delivery with operational stability, security, and compliance‑by‑design
• Champions secure‑by‑design development with guardrails appropriate for a highly regulated industry, supporting controls, statutory and tax considerations, segregation of duties, and access management
• Partners with product, platform, and operations stakeholders to translate needs into pragmatic, high‑quality technical solutions; hires, mentors, and grows strong engineers; and champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Sets direction and governance for agentic AI‑enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation within a technical area to drive measurable improvements in speed, quality, and operational outcomes, while establishing guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, traceability, and reuse across teams.

Skills

AWS serverless

Java/Spring Boot

Python

Full-stack dev

AI-native engineering

CI/CD

Security/compliance

Leadership

Multi-region architecture

Tools

Moveworks

Claude Code

Copilot

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL/REST

React/TypeScript

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New Jersey seeks a Director of Software Engineering to provide hands‑on technical leadership across multiple application teams within Corporate Technology – HR, Pay & Time Technology.

You will architect and build highly scalable, serverless solutions on AWS for Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Time, spanning Web, Mobile, and conversational interfaces. The role emphasizes multi‑region, active‑active resiliency, AI‑native development, secure‑by‑design practices, and