JOB DESCRIPTION
Push the limits of what's possible with us as an experienced member of our Software Engineering team.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Enterprise Technology Data Protection & Recovery product line, you will be an essential member of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your role will involve promoting significant business impact through your skills and contributions, utilizing your deep technical expertise and problem solving methodologies to address a wide range of challenges across technologies and applications. You will collaborate with global product and engineering teams and platform stakeholders to deliver resilient, efficient, and innovative solutions that advance the firm's strategic objectives.
Job Responsibilities
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
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8+ of experience with an expert level Java proficiency, including collections, concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning; experience with profiling tools. Able to walk through applied examples designing and operating distributed Java systems.
- Strong experience with Spring Boot and microservices; API focused event driven design and idempotency; schema evolution and compatibility.
- Expert-level experiencing designing and implementing Python-based microservices.
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Deep knowledge of resiliency engineering patterns and disaster recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) with hands on practice running DR tests and chaos/resilience exercises.
- Secure SDLC expertise: threat modeling, SAST/DAST integration, dependency risk/SBOM management, secrets handling, encryption standards, and robust authentication/authorization.
- Streaming and messaging: practical experience with Kafka (topic design, partitioning, consumer group scaling, transactional/exactly-once semantics) and other messaging platforms as required.
- 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.
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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
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Observability: instrumentation of metrics/logs/traces, alerting design, runbooks, incident management, and postmortems.
- DevOps/SDLC: proficiency with build tools, CI/CD systems, and version control (Git) with automated pipeline governance.
- Cloud-hybrid delivery: containers and orchestration, infrastructure as code, multi-AZ/region architectures, and cost efficient scalability; hands on experience with AWS and awareness of other cloud providers.
- Ability to independently tackle complex design and functionality problems with minimal oversight; excellent technical communication and mentoring skills.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with service mesh, API gateways, and contract governance at scale.
- Familiarity with modern frontend technologies for internal tooling or dashboards.
- Proficiency in one or more additional programming languages (e.g., Python) for API delivery and management, tooling, automation, or data tasks as well as partnering with other delivery teams.
- Experience establishing engineering standards across multiple teams and leading technical working groups.
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux and shell scripting for operational tooling and automation.
Leadership and collaboration expectations
- Act as a trusted technical leader across regions, influencing peers and decisionmakers to adopt leading edge technologies and best practices in resilience and security.
- Mentor engineers at multiple levels, elevate code quality and design rigor, and contribute to internal forums and tech talks to disseminate best practices.
- Build strong working relationships with platform partners across Product Development, Operations, Risk/Controls, and other firmwide functions to deliver competitive, scalable solutions.
ABOUT US
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.
