Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI-Driven, Secure Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Community & Consumer Bank - CX Loyalty Travel team.

You will lead an agile team to build secure, scalable technology products that deliver trusted experiences. You will guide design decisions, apply deep expertise in Java, Python or Node.js, and advance AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC, including robust testing and secure coding.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Advanced in programming languages Java, Python or Node.js.
• Strong proficiency with RAG architectures — chunking strategies, embedding models, vector stores.
• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or CrewAI.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude models, and model invocation APIs.
• Proven prompt engineering skills — system prompts, few-shot, chain-of-thought, tool use, structured outputs.
• Experience building conversational AI: chatbots (text) and voicebots (speech-to-text, text-to-speech integration).
• Proficiency with AWS services (Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, SQS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, ECS/EKS), and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong understanding of API design (REST, GraphQL), microservices architecture, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with evaluation frameworks for LLM outputs, guardrails, and responsible AI practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading the use of AI-assisted software development tools and secure AI adoption.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows and data sensitivity considerations.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance to support the business and technical teams.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews code.
• Drives decisions influencing product design, application functionality, and operations.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in one or more focus areas.
• Contributes to the engineering community with firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices.
• Influences peers to adopt leading-edge technologies.
• Fosters an inclusive team culture.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with minimal oversight.
• Drives enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operations.
• Applies SDLC toolchain knowledge to improve automation and value.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

RAG architectures

AI orchestration frameworks

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

CrewAI

AWS Bedrock

Anthropic Claude

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

ECS/EKS

REST/GraphQL

microservices

event-driven systems

secure coding

prompt engineering

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

CrewAI

Docker

ECS/EKS

AWS Bedrock

Anthropic Claude APIs

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Community & Consumer Bank - CX Loyalty Travel team.

You will lead an agile team to build secure, scalable technology products that deliver trusted experiences. You will guide design decisions, apply deep expertise in Java, Python or Node.js, and advance AI-assisted engineering practices across the SDLC, including robust testing and secure coding.