Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI-Driven, Secure FinTech

JP Morgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JP Morgan Chase in Jersey City seeks a Lead Software Engineer to contribute as a core technical leader in the Commercial and Investment Bank. You will enhance, build, and deliver trusted, scalable technology products within a secure environment, guiding AI-assisted practices and enterprise tooling.

You will drive architectural design, multi-threaded services, event-driven systems, and ensure robust production readiness across teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8+ years applied experience.
• Deep knowledge of the financial services IT landscape and its systems.
• Hands-on experience across design, development, testing, and production stability.
• Advanced in Java with concurrency tooling; multi-threaded services experience.
• Proven track record using AI-assisted development tools and secure coding practices.
• Strong agile/CI/CD, security, and resiliency practices.

Responsibilities

• Executes software design, development, and debugging with non-routine problem solving.
• Delivers secure, production-ready code and reviews peers' work.
• Drives enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and speed.
• Uses SDLC tools to maximize automation and value delivery.
• Identifies recurring issues to improve stability and automate remediation.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams on architectures.

Skills

Java

Concurrency

AI-assisted development

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Cloud native

Debugging and profiling

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Education

Formal software eng training

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

JP Morgan Chase in Jersey City seeks a Lead Software Engineer to contribute as a core technical leader in the Commercial and Investment Bank. You will enhance, build, and deliver trusted, scalable technology products within a secure environment, guiding AI-assisted practices and enterprise tooling.

You will drive architectural design, multi-threaded services, event-driven systems, and ensure robust production readiness across teams and vendors.