Senior Lead Software Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud & FinTech

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive backend/frontend architecture, AI integration, and platform modernization. You will balance backend and frontend engineering, set standards, and deliver customer-focused financial technology at scale.

In this role, you will mentor engineers, promote secure coding practices, and partner with product teams to shape strategic technology directions across a global enterprise.

Qualifications

• Formal software engineering training or certification.
• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global scrum team, own outcomes, and partner with Product to deliver solutions.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and propose impactful ideas.
• Integrate AI into solutions and mentor developers in AI-first approaches.
• Establish long-term platform vision for secure, scalable systems.
• Champion architecture standards, documentation, and debt reduction.
• Lead by example, grow junior engineers and share knowledge.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review peer code.
• Govern AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and speed.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

Cloud-native

AI-aware development

Distributed systems

Education

Formal software engineering training or certification

Tools

AWS

Kafka

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

GraphQL

Terraform

Spring

Spring Boot

Terraform

CloudWatch

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive backend/frontend architecture, AI integration, and platform modernization. You will balance backend and frontend engineering, set standards, and deliver customer-focused financial technology at scale.

In this role, you will mentor engineers, promote secure coding practices, and partner with product teams to shape strategic technology directions across a global enterprise.