Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact and elevate your career? Join JPMorgan Chase as a Lead Software Engineer within our Corporate Cloud Foundational Services Team, where you’ll collaborate with talented professionals to deliver innovative, market-leading technology solutions that drive our business forward.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Cloud Foundational Services Team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. In this role you are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

•  Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging 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
• Strong understanding of cloud computing technologies and platforms, including microservices, containers, IaaS, storage, security, and identity management on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Demonstrable skills in rapid prototyping and methods to shorten development cycles for platforms, software, and AI/ML products.
• Experience in any one of the IaC - Terraform, Cloud formation or Azure resource manager,
• Experience in anyone of the languages - Python/Java/Golang, DevOps (CI/CD, Agentic Development), Container Orchestration (EKS, ECS), Serverless technologies, databases (RDBMS, NO-SQL), Cloud Monitoring tools
• Experience in understanding of LLM, Agentic AI, A2A, MCP and others.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Passion for technology and innovation, can do attitude with a commitment to driving positive change within the organization.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Pulumi, OpenTofu and any other IaC platforms
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Developer, TFE Associate Certification, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Google Developer Certification, Azure Developer Certification or similar.
• Understanding of financial services industry trends, open source in finance, regulatory requirements, and the competitive landscape.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. Masters is not required for this level role.

 

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

About the Team

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.