Lead Software Engineer - Python & Java

Testing Site - JPMC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Wholesale Credit Risk Technology Analytics Team. You will be a core contributor building trusted, scalable tech products, delivering secure production code, and guiding junior engineers in a fast-paced agile environment.

You will lead design reviews, drive automation, and collaborate with external vendors and internal teams to advance architectural maturity and operational stability across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of hands-on experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced Java and Python coding skills.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Deep understanding of SDLC and agile practices (CI/CD, resiliency, security).

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting.
• Develops secure production code and reviews peers’ code.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and teams on architecture and tech applicability.
• Leads communities of practice to promote new technologies.
• Provides guidance to junior software engineers.
• Contributes to a culture of diversity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java

Python

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Security

Cloud

LLM Engineering

Education

Software engineering certification/training

Tools

AWS

Databricks

LLM tooling

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Wholesale Credit Risk Technology Analytics Team, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve 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 external vendors, startups, and internal 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
• Provide guidance to junior software engineers
• 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 practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Advanced in coding Java and Python
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Practical cloud native experience (AWS)
• Databricks eperience
• LLM Engineering experience