About the role
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology,
you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and
deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and
scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for
conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within
various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
* Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical
troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional
approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
* Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code
written by others
* 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.
* Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring
issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and
systems
* Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams
to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical
credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and
information architecture
* Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness
and use of new and leading-edge technologies
* Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+
years applied experience
* Production Kubernetes depth — cloud-managed and on-prem. Runs and
troubleshoots K8s at the platform layer, not just "deploys to it": cluster
add-ons and their failure modes (cert-manager, admission control,
policy-as-code, GitOps, Helm, ingress & load-balancer controllers), RBAC, and
control-plane, webhook issues.
* AWS at platform scale, multi-account. EKS, networking (VPC, load balancing,
DNS), IAM, KMS secrets, and managed data stores. Fluent across resiliency
patterns generally — multi-region, active active, active passive, failover,
and cell-based designs.
* Infrastructure-as-Code — Terraform required. Solid hands-on Terraform:
module-based, disciplined plan, apply, and safe change management.
* CI/CD & progressive delivery. End-to-end pipeline ownership — blue, green and
cell-based rollouts, GitOps, artifact build, and orchestration (e.g.,
Spinnaker, Jenkins) — with strong safe-rollout and rollback judgment.
* Production operational stability, SRE mindset. Incident response, root-cause
analysis, resiliency, observability-driven debugging, reducing toil, and
hardening production.
* Some coding experience for internal tooling. Able to write scripts/automation
and small internal tools (language-agnostic) to improve the platform — not a
deep hands-on IC requirement, just practical coding fluency.
* 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
* Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
* IAM customer-authentication knowledge — ForgeRock (AM, DS) or PingFederate,
OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, PKI cert lifecycle. Helpful, but a strong platform
engineer who ramps on our stack is fine.
* Resiliency chaos engineering (Game Days, fault injection).
* Secrets management (Vault, KMS, Secrets Manager). Observability depth
(Splunk, Dynatrace).
* Managed database ops (Aurora, RDS, DB-change automation).
* On-prem → cloud migration experience.
* "Platform-as-a-product" experience — owning a platform other engineering
teams depend on.
* Certs as signal (not gates): AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps Pro, CKA, CKAD,
ForgeRock, Ping.
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
[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about
requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including
Disability/Veterans
Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop
applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our
network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and
across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management,
Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative
Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our
evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.
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