Senior Lead Software Engineer – Engineering Services Platform

Fairygodboss; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Columbus, OH to drive technical leadership across frontend, backend, API, database, and AI integration within the ESP team. You will help improve SDLC cycle time, delivery reliability, and security while delivering trusted market-leading technology in a highly regulated enterprise.

The role emphasizes production-scale Cloud-native (AWS) engineering, automated testing, CI/CD governance, and responsible AI use across teams, with

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience building full stack applications using Java and React (or Angular), with practical experience delivering Spring/Spring Boot microservices and well-designed REST APIs.
• Proficiency across the full software development lifecycle - requirements, design, implementation, testing, release, and support - with clear documentation and traceability.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience with Kafka or restAPI Messaging Services.
• Experience implementing automation and continuous delivery, including build and test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and quality gates.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment 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.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Practical experience developing Production-scale Cloud-native (AWS) engineering solutions in commercial environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across frontend, backend, API, database, and AI integration workstreams.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Build mission-critical technology platforms in complex, highly regulated environments; maintain platforms that support critical software delivery and production-release processes across large enterprises.
• Build reliable systems and creating engineering ecosystems that are secure, scalable, measurable, auditable, and resilient.
• Strengthen TRC frameworks by translating policy and regulatory expectations into practical engineering capabilities.
• Modernize SDLC controls, improving the quality and integrity of control evidence, automating risk detection and remediation, strengthening software supply-chain governance, and embedding compliance directly into developer workflows.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing measurable validation standards and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Skills

Java

React

Spring Boot

REST APIs

CI/CD

AI-assisted development

Leadership

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Columbus, OH to drive technical leadership across frontend, backend, API, database, and AI integration within the ESP team. You will help improve SDLC cycle time, delivery reliability, and security while delivering trusted market-leading technology in a highly regulated enterprise.

The role emphasizes production-scale Cloud-native (AWS) engineering, automated testing, CI/CD governance, and responsible AI use across teams, with