Lead Software Engineer

Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team.

Job Description

Join a team where your technical expertise shapes the future of financial technology at one of the world's most influential firms. At JPMorganChase, you'll have the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact challenges that drive real business outcomes within a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous growth.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer Community Banking, 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 delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities

Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

Deliver end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native, microservices-based applications, leveraging the latest technologies and best industry practices

Use domain modeling techniques to build best-in-class business products, structuring software for clarity, testability, and evolution

Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others

Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

Lead communities of practice across software engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies

Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable solutions by leveraging modern architectural patterns that ensure zero-downtime releases and optimize data performance

Continuously evaluate and update technologies and patterns to keep systems current and resilient

Contribute to a 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

Proficiency in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, Node.js) with experience building microservices-based applications; for full-stack roles, proficiency also includes front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular)

Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), distributed systems, and web technologies including RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and JSON

Hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL and NoSQL databases

Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision

Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and a solid understanding of the software development life cycle

Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods, including CI/CD pipelines

Advanced understanding of application resiliency and security principles

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience in the banking or financial services domain

AWS or equivalent cloud certification

Demonstrated proficiency in emerging technical disciplines such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile development

Strong communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills

Ability to drive broader team impact by sharing and contributing best practices across engineering communities