Lead Software Engineer - AWS and Terraform

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Irvine seeks a Lead Software Engineer – AWS and Terraform to join the Healthcare Payments team. You will be a core technical contributor designing and delivering trusted, scalable tech products in a secure environment.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, drive architectural discussions, and promote enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices while ensuring secure coding, testing, and operational stability across the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering end-to-end solutions across system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production systems.
• Proven Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, including authoring/maintaining reusable modules, managing remote state and locking, and applying workspace/environment best practices.
• Practical cloud-native engineering experience, including designing and operating workloads on AWS.
• Strong AWS compute expertise (EC2, EKS, Lambda) and event-driven architecture and integration (EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Kinesis Data Stream).
• Solid AWS networking knowledge (VPC, subnets, security groups, NACLs, Route 53).
• Experience with AWS storage and data platforms (S3, EBS; and databases such as RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB).
• Strong automation and delivery capabilities, including CI/CD pipeline design, integrating Terraform into workflows, automated validation/testing, and scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools with validation standards.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations and secure handling of inputs/outputs.

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
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive use of new technologies
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
• Applies knowledge of SDLC tools, including AI-assisted development, to improve automation value
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Python

Shell scripting

Security & compliance

AI-assisted development

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

EC2

EKS

Kinesis

S3

EventBridge

DynamoDB

Job description

You belong to the top echelon of talent in your field. At one of the world's most premier financial institutions, where infrastructure is of paramount importance, you can play a pivotal role.

As an Lead Software Engineer – AWS and Terraform at JPMorganChase within the Healthcare Payments team, you serve as a core technical contributor of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job 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
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with 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
• 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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on experience delivering end‑to‑end solutions across system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production systems
• Proven Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, including authoring/maintaining reusable modules, managing remote state and locking, and applying workspace/environment best practices
• Practical cloud-native engineering experience, including designing and operating workloads on AWS
• Strong AWS compute expertise (EC2, EKS, Lambda) and event‑driven architecture and integration (EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Kinesis Data Stream), with an emphasis on performance, resiliency, and cost awareness
• Solid AWS networking knowledge (VPC, subnets, security groups, NACLs, Route 53, load balancers) to design secure and resilient architectures
• Experience with AWS storage and data platforms (S3, EBS; and databases such as RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB as applicable) to support varied application needs
• Strong automation and delivery capabilities, including CI/CD pipeline design, integrating Terraform into workflows, automated validation/testing (linting, plan approvals), and scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) to streamline engineering processes
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to C# and .NET technologies

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT: This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.