Senior Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack React/AWS

Worky; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

Chase is a leading financial services firm delivering digital banking tools to consumers and small businesses. This Senior Lead Software Engineer role drives end-to-end delivery of secure, scalable software and mentors a high-performing team.

Based in Plano, TX, you will lead architecture decisions, code reviews, and collaboration with cross-functional partners to align technical outcomes with business goals, while upholding security and resiliency standards.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in front end technologies such as React/ReactJS, Redux, Angular/AngularJS, ExtJS, JQuery, NodeJS.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases like Postgres.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers with code reviews to improve delivery quality.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and AWS for deployments.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance to support business and technical teams.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and conducts reviews.
• Drives decisions influencing product design, functionality, and operations.
• Acts as a subject matter expert and participates in architecture evaluations.
• Promotes AI-assisted engineering practices with secure validation standards.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors to assess architectural designs and credentials.
• Supports enterprise-wide frameworks, tools, and SDLC processes.

Skills

React/ReactJS

Redux

Angular/AngularJS

NodeJS

AWS

AI-assisted development

Mentorship

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack React/AWS in Digital Technology within Consumer and Community Banking Technology, you drive end-to-end delivery of secure, stable, and scalable software that enables market-leading digital products. You apply deep technical expertise to design systems, improve application performance and reliability, and strengthen engineering practices across the team. You lead by example through hands-on development, thoughtful reviews, and mentorship. You collaborate with cross-functional partners to make sound technical decisions aligned to business outcomes.

Build customer-facing technology that supports secure, reliable, and high-performing digital experiences at scale. Join an agile engineering team that values strong engineering fundamentals, continuous improvement, and practical innovation. You will work across design, development, testing, and operations while helping others grow through technical leadership and coaching. This role offers the opportunity to influence architecture and delivery practices while maintaining a high bar for security and resiliency.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respectLeads evaluation sessions with external vendors, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in any of the front end technology like React/ReactJS, Redux, Angular/AngularJS, ExtJS, JQuery, NodeJS
• Proficiency in technologies like Java, Spring Boot, RDS Postgres or any Relational Database.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and code reviews to improve delivery quality and team velocity.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code modules for repeatable, scalable, and auditable deployments.
• Practical cloud native experience in AWS
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficient in React and NodeJS.
• Experience in AWS with hands-on experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
• Technology coach, and leader to help team solve technology problems.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve consumers, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits. You'll support the delivery of award winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting edged mobile applications, digital experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.