Lead Software Engineer - AWS and Terraform

JPMorganChase; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Irvine is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for AWS and Terraform within the Healthcare Payments team. You will serve as a core technical contributor to design and deliver trusted, scalable technology products.

You will lead end-to-end development, drive secure coding, automation with CI/CD, and explore AI-assisted engineering while mentoring peers and shaping architecture across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• End-to-end production system delivery experience.
• Terraform IaC with reusable modules and remote state.
• Hands-on AWS design and operation experience.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing experience.
• Knowledge of secure coding and AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, high-quality production code and perform reviews.
• Architect and troubleshoot to scale in secure, stable systems.
• Lead architecture discussions and evaluate designs.
• Promote adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Drive automation and CI/CD integration with Terraform.
• Contribute to a diverse, inclusive team culture.

Skills

Terraform IaC

AWS (EC2/EKS/Lambda)

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Bash scripting

AI-assisted dev tools

Secure coding practices

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD tooling

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.