Lead Software Engineer – AI‑Driven, Cloud Native

Socket.dev; New Jersey; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within Asset and Wealth Management Advisor & Investment Technology in New Jersey. You will be hands‑on, designing, building, and operating critical technology solutions aligned to firm objectives, mentoring peers, and driving reliability, security, and enterprise‑wide code quality.

You will help adopt enterprise‑authorized AI practices to improve delivery outcomes while maintaining secure, scalable software across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied software engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of modern architectures and patterns, including microservices, REST APIs, event‑driven design, and NoSQL data stores.
• Experience building cloud‑native applications and services; working knowledge of AWS (or comparable cloud platform).
• Demonstrated experience delivering at least two large, complex applications end‑to‑end, from initial build through production delivery.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps toolchains, observability/monitoring practices, and a test‑driven approach within agile delivery models.
• Experience leading AI‑assisted software development tools with clear team expectations for validation of outputs.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions.
• Develops secure and high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives team adoption of AI‑assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, with validation standards.
• Applies knowledge of SDLC tools, including AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve automation value.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve stability of software applications and systems.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and teams to probe architectures and applicability for use within existing systems.

Skills

Microservices

REST APIs

Event-driven design

NoSQL

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Tools

OpenAPI/Swagger

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within Asset and Wealth Management Advisor & Investment Technology in New Jersey. You will be hands‑on, designing, building, and operating critical technology solutions aligned to firm objectives, mentoring peers, and driving reliability, security, and enterprise‑wide code quality.

You will help adopt enterprise‑authorized AI practices to improve delivery outcomes while maintaining secure, scalable software across the lifecycle.