Senior Full-Stack Lead Engineer (Cloud, AI, Security)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in New York seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design across complex services in a secure, scalable way. You will own production readiness, implement observability, and lead architectural decisions in a fast paced, enterprise environment.

You will guide engineers, conduct rigorous reviews, and design AI‑assisted workflows with governance and measurable outcomes while improving latency and reliability across backend and frontend systems.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience.
• B.S. Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot development, SQL, SNS, SQS, and Kafka.
• AWS and cloud‑native services (ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB/CassandraDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Proficiency in Javascript, HTML 5, CSS3.
• Hands‑on experience in system design, RESTful JSON API design, micro services, testing strategy, and operational stability.

Responsibilities

• Leads design and implementation of complex features and services across upstream/downstream services; define API contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Owns production readiness and operational excellence: define SLOs/SLIs, drive observability, manage incidents, and reduce MTTR.
• Champions secure by default and resilient designs: timeouts, retries with exponential backoff/jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency, graceful degradation.
• Conducts and facilitate design reviews and consult with Architecture team for enterprise alignment with partner teams to minimize integration risk.
• Writes secure, concise, high quality production code and review/debug code written by others across backend and frontend.
• Engages in pair programming, rigorous code reviews, and reliable estimation; maintain performance budgets and accessibility standards for user facing experiences.
• Applies database rigor across SQL/NoSQL: schema design, indexing, query tuning, and caching to improve latency and throughput
• Integrates firm approved, privacy safe AI assistants into day to day development to accelerate test generation, documentation, refactoring, and static analysis triage—always with human in the loop review and CI quality gates.
• Establishes guardrails and governance for AI use: prompt hygiene, secrets/PII protection, logging/provenance for generated code, and objective acceptance criteria: lint clean, coverage thresholds, Static App Security Tests/Dynamic App Security Tests, performance checks.
• Defines and track measurable outcomes from AI assisted workflows: developer throughput, review cycle time, defect density without compromising security or reliability.

Skills

Leadership

Code reviews

Design reviews

Agile delivery

Mentoring engineers

Observability

Security by default

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

SQL

SQS

SNS

Kafka

AWS

REST API

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

CI/CD

Job description

JPMorganChase in New York seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive design across complex services in a secure, scalable way. You will own production readiness, implement observability, and lead architectural decisions in a fast paced, enterprise environment.

You will guide engineers, conduct rigorous reviews, and design AI‑assisted workflows with governance and measurable outcomes while improving latency and reliability across backend and frontend systems.