Lead Full-Stack Engineer (Java/React) — AI-Driven & Secure

Jobs in JS; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Palo Alto is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join an agile team that builds trusted market-leading technology products securely and at scale. You will drive design, development, and delivery across back-end and front-end stacks in collaboration with multiple business functions.

You will champion AI-assisted engineering, ensure code quality and secure coding, and mentor peers while applying Kubernetes, React, Java, and microservices in a large corporate 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.
• Proficiency in back-end & Front - end technologies such as React, JavaScript, Java, Spring Boot, Micro-services.
• Familiarity with messaging platforms such as Rabbit MQ and Kafka.
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• 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
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

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
• 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

Skills

React

JavaScript

Java

Spring Boot

Micro-services

Tools

Rabbit MQ

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

JPMorganChase in Palo Alto is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join an agile team that builds trusted market-leading technology products securely and at scale. You will drive design, development, and delivery across back-end and front-end stacks in collaboration with multiple business functions.

You will champion AI-assisted engineering, ensure code quality and secure coding, and mentor peers while applying Kubernetes, React, Java, and microservices in a large corporate environment.