Lead Software Engineer - Machine Learning

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial and Investment Bank Payments Technology team in New Jersey. You will be a core technical contributor, guiding architecture and delivering trusted, scalable technology products in a secure environment.

Responsibilities include deploying ML models end-to-end, maintaining cloud-native services, and driving AI-assisted engineering practices across the team to improve quality, speed, and security while mentoring peers.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced knowledge in cloud, AI, ML, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading adoption of AI-assisted software development tools with secure output validation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Deploy and serve end-to-end ML models.
• Deploy and maintain cloud-native services.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and reliability.
• Review and debug production code; influence product design and operations.

Skills

AI-assisted engineering

Cloud experience

Programming knowledge

Security fundamentals

Education

Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Mathematics

Tools

OpenAPI

OpenTelemetry

AWS

OAuth2

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 Commercial and Investment Bank Payments Technology team, 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

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• You will be responsible for deploying and serving end to end ML models.
• Deploy and maintain services in a fully cloud native environment.
• 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.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• 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.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the 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 practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• 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
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficient in Python programming for building traditional ML models and APIs
• Good understanding of designing and deploying OpenAPI compliant API services.
• Good understanding of building Agentic workloads using AI frameworks such as Google ADK and LLamaIndex.
• Ability to configure Oauth2 based authentication and authorization flows for applications.
• Good understanding of OpenTelemetry and modern microservice deployment patterns.
• Good understanding of AWS services ability to deploy high reliability cloud native workloads.
• Knowledgeable in building and debugging ML models built using supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms.