Lead IAM Engineer — Identity & Access Platform

Fairygodboss; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Identity Access Management to join the CTO Team in the US. You will lead backend services, drive AI-assisted development practices, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, scalable software.

The role emphasizes architecture design, SDLC governance, and collaboration with product teams across time zones. Excellent communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to influence stakeholders and collaborate across teams and time zones.
• Demonstrated leadership in using approved AI-assisted development tools and setting team standards to validate AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity and secure handling of inputs/outputs.
• Proficiency with AI coding/analysis assistants to improve developer productivity with governance and security controls.
• Proven innovator with a track record of proposing and prototyping new design ideas to solve problems.
• Expert knowledge of OOP, design patterns, and software analysis/design practices.
• Ability to assess upstream/downstream system and data impacts and recommend mitigations.
• Frontend experience with React and Angular.
• DevOps/quality tooling experience: Terraform, Selenium, Git, Jenkins, monitoring, security.

Responsibilities

• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and automation while maintaining secure, high-quality, auditable delivery.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, and ensure implemented code conforms to design constraints and standards.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards and promoting reuse.
• 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.
• Design, develop, and continuously improve scalable, resilient systems in a timely manner in partnership with product teams.
• Write clean, well-documented, unit-tested code to ensure high-quality software modules.
• Incorporate non-functional requirements (telemetry, monitoring, security, alerting, logging) into solution designs and implementations.
• Mentor and develop team members in design, new technologies, clean code, TDD, code review, and problem-solving practices.
• Partner with product/customers to understand program function and end-user experience, support production issues as needed, collaborate effectively in distributed Agile teams, and contribute as a technology coach/lead developer across teams.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Spring Boot

Microservices

Multithreading

OOP & Design Patterns

React / Angular

DevOps / CI/CD

AI-assisted development

Databases (Oracle, MS SQL)

Tools

Terraform

Selenium

Cucumber

Git

Jenkins CI/CD

Telemetry & Monitoring

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Identity Access Management to join the CTO Team in the US. You will lead backend services, drive AI-assisted development practices, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, scalable software.

The role emphasizes architecture design, SDLC governance, and collaboration with product teams across time zones. Excellent communication and leadership are essential.