Senior Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Elevate your engineering prowess to unprecedented levels by joining a team of exceptionally gifted professionals and position yourself among the top echelon in site reliability.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the enterprise technology, Electronic Trading Services team , you work with your fellow stakeholders to define non-functional requirements (NFRs) and availability targets for the services in your application and product lines. You will ensure those NFRs are accounted for in your products’ design and test phases, that your service level indicators are effectively measuring customer experience, and that service level objectives are defined with stakeholders and implemented in production.

Job Responsibilities

• Creates and delivers high quality designs, roadmaps, and program charters alongside the engineering team

• Acts as a key resource and mentor for technologists in your area seeking advice on technical and business issues, and serves as a culture carrier and site reliability adoption champion for your team

• Collaborates with others to create and implement observability and reliability designs for complex systems which are robust, stable, and do not incur additional toil or technical debt

• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate reliability design and operational decisioning (e.g., incident/post-incident analysis and requirements traceability), validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.

• Apply technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to projects of moderate scope and Drive workstreams or projects involving one or more infrastructure engineering technologies

• Provides comprehensive and ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firms’ growth

• Make significant contributions to JPMorganChase’s site reliability community via internal forums, communities of practice, guilds, and conferences

• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices (e.g., testing/validation automation and production readiness), ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.

• Execute creative solutions for design, development, and technical troubleshooting for problems of moderate complexity

• Consider upstream and downstream data, systems, and technical implications, advising on mitigation actions

• Collaborate with other platforms to architect and implement changes that resolve issues and modernize technology processes

  
  

  Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience ( NAMR/APAC – India/ LATAM/ Hong Kong)

• Brings an advanced understanding of site reliability culture and principles and a track record of demonstrating how to implement site reliability within an application or platform

• Possess deep knowledge in one or more areas of infrastructure engineering, such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments

• Demonstrate expertise in a specific infrastructure technology and scripting languages (e.g., Python)

• Advanced knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objectives, alerting, and telemetry collection

• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve reliability engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.

• Ability to set team practices for safe AI usage in operations (e.g., review/approval expectations and escalation paths) while maintaining resiliency, security, and auditability outcomes.

• Show commitment to developing technical and cross-functional knowledge beyond your product area

• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines

• Demonstrated ability to communicate data-based solutions with complex reporting and visualization methods

• Recognized as an active contributor of the engineering community and

  Strong communication skills and a desire to mentor and educate others on site reliability engineering principles and practices

  
  

  Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Arista, Cisco, F5, and Fortinet devices
• Familiarity with network automation tools and techniques, such as Ansible

• Experience with Corvil and Wireshark

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.