Lead Software Engineer – AI-Driven, Secure & Scalable

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Corporate Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer to influence and deliver secure, scalable technology products. You will contribute technically across multiple business functions, guiding best practices in AI-assisted development and secure coding.

You will lead design, implementation, and reviews of high-quality production code, while driving adoption of enterprise tools and automation to improve reliability and speed in a complex financial services environment.

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
• Experience leading AI-assisted engineering practices and secure coding standards

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support)
• 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
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Spring Security

Angular

Angular JS

React

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Terraform

VS Code

Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Corporate Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer to influence and deliver secure, scalable technology products. You will contribute technically across multiple business functions, guiding best practices in AI-assisted development and secure coding.

You will lead design, implementation, and reviews of high-quality production code, while driving adoption of enterprise tools and automation to improve reliability and speed in a complex financial services environment.