Senior Identity & Auth Platform Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within the Chief Technology Office. You will be a core technical contributor on the Auth & Auth TSE team, owning complex authentication integrations and guiding engineering customers through design and remediation of issues.

Expect hands-on coding, debugging, and strong collaboration to protect workforce sign-on and enterprise services. You will read stack traces, reproduce issues, write diagnostic tooling, and mentor peers while advancing

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Customer-facing solution design. Proven experience working with engineering customers to understand a problem and help design the fix, not just relay information.
• Coding / scripting proficiency. Able to read and write code to reproduce issues and review customer integrations, whatever the language.
• Technical writing and review. Clear documentation and constructive review of others' work.
• Broad systems integration experience. A track record integrating across many systems, protocols, and languages, and reasoning across the full path from client to resource.
• Root-cause diagnostic rigor. Following the evidence (logs, traces, tokens) rather than guessing.
• Incident and release support discipline. Steady under pressure, with sound escalation judgment.
• Strong communication with both deeply technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s).
• 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

Responsibilities

• Serve as an in-region, front‑line technical support point across the Auth & Auth portfolio, strengthening resiliency for critical authentication functions.
• Partner directly with engineering customers to design and validate their integrations: flow selection, federation setup, onboarding, and secure credential handling.
• Own complex incidents that span several systems, driving them to resolution and supporting the maintenance and release work around them.
• Read and write code daily, including reproductions, diagnostic tooling, and reviews of customers' integration code.
• Author and review runbooks and root‑cause write‑ups.
• Provide regional escalation coverage and help bring other engineers up to speed.
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• 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 SDLC toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve automation value.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability

Skills

Coding / scripting

Technical writing

Systems integration

Root-cause analysis

Incident management

AI-assisted development

Responsible AI

Tools

CI/CD tools

Observability tooling

Security tooling

Token exchange debugging

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within the Chief Technology Office. You will be a core technical contributor on the Auth & Auth TSE team, owning complex authentication integrations and guiding engineering customers through design and remediation of issues.

Expect hands-on coding, debugging, and strong collaboration to protect workforce sign-on and enterprise services. You will read stack traces, reproduce issues, write diagnostic tooling, and mentor peers while advancing