Lead Software Engineer - AI Platforms

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Houston seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the Global Banking Technology team, delivering scalable, secure technologies for deal origination, market intelligence, and client coverage.

You will be a core technical contributor crafting production-grade services and data flows across multiple platforms. You will design backend components with Java, Python, and React, mentor engineers, and advance AI-assisted development practices while ensuring reliability and security

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• Hands-on expertise across Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and microservices.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and secure coding practices.
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools.
• Ability to lead and mentor teams within a large corporate environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex software components across backend services, APIs, and UI experiences using Java, Python, and React.
• Build and refine agentic capabilities using the Smart SDK, including tool integration, orchestration patterns, and safety/reliability guardrails suitable for production use.
• 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), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• 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.
• Develop and optimize RAG pipelines end-to-end (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, prompt/response patterns), improving relevance, latency, and robustness with OpenSearch and continuous measurement.
• Write secure, high-quality production code and raise the bar through code reviews, debugging, and hands-on mentorship—improving maintainability, performance, and consistency across the codebase.
• Drive operational excellence by identifying recurring issues and implementing automation, preventative controls, and reliability improvements to reduce toil and improve system stability.
• Engineer data and search solutions using PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, query tuning) and OpenSearch (indexing strategies, query relevance tuning) to support AI and analytics workflows
• Contribute to cloud-native engineering on AWS, partnering on infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and improving deployment safety, environment consistency, and observability.
• Participate in technical evaluation sessions with internal partners and external vendors—assessing architecture, technical depth, and fit within existing platforms and information architecture.
• Champion modern engineering practices and knowledge-sharing, contributing to communities of practice and accelerating adoption of leading-edge technologies.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Microservices

AWS

Terraform

GitHub

Jenkins

AI-assisted tools

Secure coding

PostgreSQL

MySQL

DynamoDB

Redis

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenSearch

Observability tools

Education

Formal software engineering training or certification

Tools

OpenSearch

Job description

GB Intelligence is transforming how Global Banking gets work done—bringing AI-driven insights and workflow automation into the heart of deal origination, market and sector intelligence, and client coverage.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Banking - Global Banking Technology team, youare an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

You will help deliver high-impact, production-grade capabilities: building scalable and resilient services, engineering secure data flows, and integrating seamlessly with the tools bankers rely on every day (CRM, market data platforms, modeling environments, and document/compliance systems). You’ll turn complex client, deal, and market data into trusted insights and outputs—then operationalize them across downstream systems to accelerate execution, strengthen risk discipline, and elevate the day-to-day experience for Global Banking teams.

Job responsibilities

• Design and implement complex software components across backend services, APIs, and UI experiences using Java, Python, and React, applying sound engineering judgment and pragmatic architecture.
• Build and refine agentic capabilities using the Smart SDK, including tool integration, orchestration patterns, and safety/reliability guardrails suitable for production use.
• 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), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• 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.
• Develop and optimize RAG pipelines end-to-end (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, prompt/response patterns), improving relevance, latency, and robustness with OpenSearch and continuous measurement.
• Write secure, high-quality production code and raise the bar through code reviews, debugging, and hands-on mentorship—improving maintainability, performance, and consistency across the codebase.
• Drive operational excellence by identifying recurring issues and implementing automation, preventative controls, and reliability improvements to reduce toil and improve system stability.
• Engineer data and search solutions using PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, query tuning) and OpenSearch (indexing strategies, query relevance tuning) to support AI and analytics workflows
• Contribute to cloud-native engineering on AWS, partnering on infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and improving deployment safety, environment consistency, and observability.
• Participate in technical evaluation sessions with internal partners and external vendors—assessing architecture, technical depth, and fit within existing platforms and information architecture.
• Champion modern engineering practices and knowledge-sharing, contributing to communities of practice and accelerating adoption of leading-edge technologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture, building secure, high-quality, production-grade systems.
• Proficiency with AWS, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, and modern developer tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
• 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
• Databases: proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis, etc.), and GraphQL.
• Containerization: experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated experience developing, debugging, and maintaining software in a large corporate environment using one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Demonstrable ability to write high-quality code in one or more languages, with strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Demonstrated expertise with monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch) and proven capability to lead high-performing teams by influence—driving innovation, maintaining strong team health, and owning the end-to-end performance cycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Exposure to agile engineering practices including CI/CD, application resiliency, and secure engineering.