Lead Software Engineer — AI-Driven, Scalable & Secure

Next Frontier Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in New York, NY seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture and delivery of trusted market-leading technology products within Community and Consumer Banking. You will contribute across multiple technical areas, partner with stakeholders daily, and lead feature design with a focus on reliability, security, and performance.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, collaboration in a diverse team, and mentoring engineers to ensure high-quality, scalable production code.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Extensive core Java (version 8 or higher) development experience with Spring or similar framework.
• Test Driven Development using Junit.
• Expert understanding of data structures, algorithms & multi-threaded programming.
• Experience working on multi-threaded, high throughput mission critical high-performance platforms.
• Experience in designing and building reusable services.
• Experience with data security and encryption in an enterprise setting.
• Experience with Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes, PowerMock, JMeter, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Sonar, Fortify, Black Duck, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence.
• 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

Responsibilities

• Applies depth of knowledge to all aspects of the software development lifecycle and partners daily with stakeholders to stay focused on goals.
• Collaborates in a diverse environment and focuses on customers globally.
• Develops using Test Driven Development and is familiar with CI on a shared code base.
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting beyond routine approaches.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation to improve stability of software applications and systems.
• Leads design and development of features, shaping program strategy.
• Provides technical leadership and mentoring to the team.
• Prototype and deliver AI-enabled workflows and translate stakeholder needs into designs.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices across reliability, performance, risk, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Java 8+

Spring Framework

Test Driven Development

Multi-threaded programming

Data structures & algorithms

AI-assisted development

Mentoring/leadership

High-performance systems

Education

Formal software engineering training or certification

Tools

Java Spring Boot

Hibernate

Kafka

Cassandra

Kubernetes

PowerMock

JMeter

Splunk

Grafana

Dynatrace

Jenkins

Sonar

Fortify

Black Duck

Bitbucket

JIRA

Confluence

AWS

GCP

Job description

JPMorganChase in New York, NY seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture and delivery of trusted market-leading technology products within Community and Consumer Banking. You will contribute across multiple technical areas, partner with stakeholders daily, and lead feature design with a focus on reliability, security, and performance.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, collaboration in a diverse team, and mentoring engineers to ensure high-quality, scalable production code.