Java, Angular, React Full stack Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Corporate Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer to influence and deliver secure, scalable technology products. You will contribute technically across multiple business functions, guiding best practices in AI-assisted development and secure coding.

You will lead design, implementation, and reviews of high-quality production code, while driving adoption of enterprise tools and automation to improve reliability and speed in a complex financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 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
• Experience leading AI-assisted engineering practices and secure coding standards

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)
• 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

Skills

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Spring Security

Angular

Angular JS

React

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Terraform

VS Code

Copilot

Claude Code

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 Corporate Technology, 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

• 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 programming language(s) - Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Angular, Angular JS, React
• Design and develop REST based web interfaces and APIS. Understanding ofbothrelational and NoSQL databasese.g.Oracle,Cockroachdb, Cassandra.
• Understanding ofautomated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins,Bitbucketand terraform. Understanding of CLOUD principles and development, deploymentparadigm.
• Experience creating unit and integration test suites using JUNIT and Cucumber framework. Experience in VS Code and AI tooling such as Copilot and Claude Code is must
• 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
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Understanding and prior experience of Identity and Access management solutions
• GO, Pythonexperience
• Knowledge of Kerberos and oAuth 2 protocols