Lead Software Engineer — AI-Driven, Scalable Microservices

Fairygodboss; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in its Corporate Sector Technology group to drive scalable, secure software delivery across multiple teams. You will mentor engineers, oversee ML/AI-enabled pipelines, and align architecture with enterprise standards to support business objectives.

The role emphasizes REST/microservices, Kubernetes, and modern Java ecosystems, while maintaining rigorous security, testing, and governance practices in a high-pressure environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
• 10+ years of hands-on software development in large-scale distributed systems
• 3+ years leading AI-assisted software development tool use

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed
• Architect and implement scalable, low-latency services with target-state architecture
• Design services that integrate with enterprise systems while meeting security and governance needs
• Lead and mentor development teams in a fast-paced delivery environment
• Collaborate with architects, DBAs, and SMEs to design and resolve issues
• Build ML platform components and monitor performance, reliability, and security
• Develop agentic AI services to support engineering and model-ops workflows
• Define guardrails and evaluation approaches for agentic AI in production

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Linux

AI-assisted tooling

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

Security

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

Docker

ELK

Splunk

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in its Corporate Sector Technology group to drive scalable, secure software delivery across multiple teams. You will mentor engineers, oversee ML/AI-enabled pipelines, and align architecture with enterprise standards to support business objectives.

The role emphasizes REST/microservices, Kubernetes, and modern Java ecosystems, while maintaining rigorous security, testing, and governance practices in a high-pressure environment.