Full Stack React/Java Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City seeks a Lead Software Engineer to contribute across UI, services, and integrations within CTO IAM. You will design and deliver trusted, scalable technology products while upholding secure engineering practices.

As a senior technical leader, you will mentor teams, drive code quality, and advocate for responsible AI integration, observability, and reliability across projects in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of driving engineering standards and best practices.
• Hands-on experience delivering design, development, testing, and stability.
• Strong programming with React, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building AI-assisted software development tools and safe outputs.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and brainstorms novel approaches to problems.
• Develops secure production code and reviews code written by others.
• Drives adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices and automated testing.
• Assesses and improves SDLC tooling, validation standards, and code quality.

Skills

React

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

AI agents

Secure SDLC

CI/CD

Agile

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Observability

Security tooling

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 IAM, 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

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure 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
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven track record of driving engineering standards and best practices (e.g., code quality, testing strategy, release governance) across a team or product area
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)- Strong hands-onReact (architecture, performance, reusable component patterns). Strong hands-onJava backend engineering (API design, service patterns, reliability, performance). StrongJavaScript, TypeScript fundamentals.
• Develop and operateAI agents that integrate with enterprise systems, with a focus onreliability, observability, and safety-by-design. 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
• Senior Lead full-stack engineering experience owning delivery across UI, services, integrations, and production support.
• Demonstratedtechnical leadership. Drives design, engineering decisions, sets standards, and unblocks delivery. Mentors engineers, leads code reviews, raises overall code quality. Partners effectively with Product, QA, and stakeholders
• Proven delivery in anAgile setup (planning, execution, estimation, continuous improvement). Clear ownership ofcode quality and testing strategy (unit integration e2e, testability, meaningful coverage, regression strategy).
• Strongsecure SDLC, cybersecurity practices (secure coding, OWASP, dependency hygiene, secrets management, authn, authz basics).
• StrongCI CD, automation experience (pipelines, quality gates, deployment practices).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience withLLMs/agent frameworks, prompt/tool orchestration, and evaluation strategies.
• Production experience withcontainers/Kubernetes, feature flags, and observability stacks.
• Performance tuning and resilience patterns (caching, async workflows, circuit breakers).