Lead Software Engineer — AI-Driven, Secure Cloud Systems

JP Morgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Consumer & Community Banking to drive the design, development, and deployment of scalable, secure financial technology solutions. You will guide agile teams, influence product design, and advance AI-assisted practices across the lifecycle.

You will lead high-impact engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver trusted, market-leading technology that serves millions of customers.

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
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted software development tools within the work environment - including coding, code review, test acceleration, and 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 and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers and leads on compliant usage patterns and controls
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud‑native experience

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors on a regular basis
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and conduct thorough reviews and debugging of code written by others
• Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes - including AI-assisted code review, refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, and incident and root-cause analysis - while establishing measurable validation standards and promoting reuse of proven patterns within the software development lifecycle toolchain
• Apply knowledge of tools within the software development lifecycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale
• Influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes through data-driven, outcome-focused decision-making
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of technical focus
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices across the software development lifecycle

Skills

Software engineering concepts

System design

Programming languages

AI-assisted development tools

Responsible AI usage

Independent problem solving

Cloud-native experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

AI tooling for code review

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Consumer & Community Banking to drive the design, development, and deployment of scalable, secure financial technology solutions. You will guide agile teams, influence product design, and advance AI-assisted practices across the lifecycle.

You will lead high-impact engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver trusted, market-leading technology that serves millions of customers.