Sr Lead Security Engineer - Role Core

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Security Engineer to join an agile team focused on building secure, scalable technology products. You will guide security engineering across the SDLC, drive architecture decisions, and mentor teams while leveraging enterprise AI capabilities to enhance risk analysis and documentation.

The role emphasizes designing robust systems, reviewing code, and advancing secure software practices within a large financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building high-performance API-first services.
• Hands-on design, development, testing, and operations experience.
• Proficient in C#, C++, Go, Python or Java.
• Deep knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, and API gateway patterns.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems in cloud-native environments.
• Experience using AI capabilities in security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance to business and technical teams.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews others' code.
• Drives product design decisions and acts as SME in key areas.
• Contributes to SDLC framework, tooling, and practices.
• Advocates for secure, resilient architectures and data handling.
• Reviews AI-assisted security recommendations for correctness and compliance.
• Collaborates to strengthen security testing, traceability, and auditability.

Skills

API-first services

C#

C++

Go

Python

Java

Cloud

AI/ML

Security engineering

Job description

As a Senior Lead Software Security Engineer at JPMorganChase, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business, tactical to system goals to specific interfaces.

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 respect.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate security risk analysis and documentation (e.g., synthesizing threat assessments), validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training and certification with 5+ years of experience building high performance API first services and integrating tooling
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability. Advanced in two or more programming language(s) C#, C++, Go, Python, and Java
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS protocols, SSL/TLS inspection, traffic interception, API gateway patterns
• Proven ability to build scalable distributed systems handling high throughput traffic in a cloud native environment.
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.

• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• API Gateway Development
• Custom proxy development
• SSE, CASB or SIEM integration experience

#CTC

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. We are looking for a senior engineer to build and lead the team in designing, engineering and delivering new products in the security domain.

Is that you? How can you tell? Well, you are passionate about producing innovative products to be able to transform and govern modern applications. And you're happiest when you're guiding empowered, world-class managers and engineers to meet world-class challenges. You are passionate about outlining technical vision and moving innovation in your team and the industry forward.