Senior Full-Stack & Security Engineering Lead

JPMorgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 175,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Sr Lead Security Engineer to design and deliver scalable, secure full‑stack solutions across a broad technology landscape, including cloud infrastructure, blockchain integrations, and digital asset custody workflows. You will lead AI‑assisted engineering practices, code reviews, and secure development standards to ensure reliability and protection of critical financial systems.

The role sits within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls team in Corporate Technology,

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of practical experience.
• Hands-on experience in system design, development, testing, and operations in a large corporate environment.
• Knowledge of SDLC, agile methodologies including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Experience with cloud, AI, ML, or mobile technologies.
• Experience with digital asset or financial services platforms, including familiarity with transaction lifecycle, key management concepts, or custody workflows.
• Experience architecting and building with AWS cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, resilient systems using Java or Python, contributing to continual, iterative improvements for product teams through hands-on software solutions, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Develop and operate microservices including API design, service decomposition, and reliability patterns such as timeouts, retries, idempotency, and dead-letter queues.
• Build and maintain integrations using AWS services including API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3, and RDS; troubleshoot production issues across services and infrastructure.
• Produce clear design and architecture artifacts - including service boundaries, data flows, sequence diagrams, and architecture decision records - ensuring implementation aligns with design constraints.
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize large, diverse data sets to develop visualizations and reporting that drive continuous improvement of software applications and systems; identify hidden problems and patterns in data to improve coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Design and implement components of a digital asset custody platform, including signing pipeline services, policy evaluation engines, and chain adapter integrations across EVM and non‑EVM networks.
• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable applications using AWS cloud services across the full software development lifecycle.
• Drive team adoption of enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted engineering practices - including AI‑assisted code review, refactoring, test strategy acceleration, and incident root‑cause analysis - while establishing consistent validation standards for secure coding, peer review, and automated testing.
• Apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle toolchain capabilities, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation tools, to improve the value realized through automation and delivery speed.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

Skills

Security engineering

System design

AWS cloud

AI-assisted engineering

CI/CD

Java or Python

Tools

Terraform

API Gateway

SQS/SNS

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Sr Lead Security Engineer to design and deliver scalable, secure full‑stack solutions across a broad technology landscape, including cloud infrastructure, blockchain integrations, and digital asset custody workflows. You will lead AI‑assisted engineering practices, code reviews, and secure development standards to ensure reliability and protection of critical financial systems.

The role sits within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls team in Corporate Technology,