Lead Software Engineer – Resiliency & AI Cloud

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

On-site wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co in Plano, TX is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive disaster recovery, resiliency, and automated cloud-based solutions. You will lead cross-team DR tests, define RPO/RTO, and partner with SREs to build advanced detection and monitoring using AWS tools.

The role requires deep experience in cloud architectures, IaC, and AI-assisted development, with a strong emphasis on secure, scalable engineering practices within an agile framework.

Qualifications

• 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
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud architectures, specifically DR-enabling services like AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Backup, and multi-AZ/multi-region deployments.
• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Go, or Bash) and familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Disaster Recovery Planning, or Distributed Systems Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools 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.
• 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.)

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate end-to-end DR tests and real-time failover events across all applications within the product portfolio, ensuring smooth cross-team collaboration.
• Develop and maintain overarching resiliency frameworks that development and infrastructure teams can consume via automated product offerings and repeatable patterns.
• Define and monitor Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for all product components, tracking metrics to identify architectural or procedural gaps.
• Partner with application teams to automate disaster recovery provisioning, scaling, configuration, and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Drive resiliency testing scenarios and chaos engineering using native tools like AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) and AWS Resilience Hub to identify vulnerabilities before they impact production
• Partner with SREs to build advanced detection capabilities, leveraging ex-AWS Resilience Hub to assess application resilience and set up proactive CloudWatch alerts.
• Establish, maintain, and execute technical DR playbooks and recovery runbooks, ensuring sequence mapping and dependencies are meticulously documented.
• Mentor and lead software engineers across the organization, promoting continuous learning and operational best practices.
• Collect, govern, and report on DR test artifacts, audit trails, and resilience maturity scores to demonstrate compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards 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.

Skills

Cloud architecture

SRE practices

AI-assisted development

Agile methodologies

Education

Formal software engineering training

5+ years applied experience in software engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co in Plano, TX is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive disaster recovery, resiliency, and automated cloud-based solutions. You will lead cross-team DR tests, define RPO/RTO, and partner with SREs to build advanced detection and monitoring using AWS tools.

The role requires deep experience in cloud architectures, IaC, and AI-assisted development, with a strong emphasis on secure, scalable engineering practices within an agile framework.