Lead Software Engineer - Chief Technology Office (CTO)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within the Chief Technology Organization to drive secure, scalable, and trusted technology products. You will influence architecture, provide production-grade code, and promote AI-assisted engineering practices across teams.

The role requires hands-on Java development, cloud experience (AWS), and leadership in adopting secure, resilient software delivery methods. Join a high-impact team delivering market-leading solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience leading effective use of AI-assisted development tools with governance for correctness, performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development and troubleshooting beyond routine approaches.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Leads AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed and operational outcomes.
• Applies SDLC tooling knowledge to improve automation and value.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues for stability.
• Leads architecture design evaluation sessions to assess applicability within existing systems.

Skills

Java

Agile methodologies

Secure coding

AI-assisted engineering practices

Software development life cycle

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

Terraform

MyBatis

Node.js

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

AWS

PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Chief Technology Organization (CTO), you are 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.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and 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), 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.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience ( NAMR/APAC – India/ LATAM/ Hong Kong)
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) – Java required
• Hands-on practical experience working with Databases: Amazon Aurora, Postgres (queries, data extraction/manipulation, operations, performance tuning, reliability).
• 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
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience.AWS (hands-on) including services commonly used for scalable applications.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and environment standardization.
• Experience with Data access: MyBatis (or similar ORM / persistence frameworks) in Java systems.
• Experience with Frontend + Node.js: experience building or supporting modern web frontends and Node.js services.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tooling: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code (using responsibly to accelerate delivery, testing, refactoring, and documentation).
• Strong track record in support work: incident management, triage, post-incident reviews, and operational hardening.