Lead Software Engineer - Java Full Stack, React
JPMorgan Chase · Posted Oct 21
Global banking, investment, credit card, mortgage, and asset management services
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About the role
The Commercial & Investment Bank at JPMorganChase builds and delivers trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. This role is a Lead Software Engineer on an agile team, working across full-stack Java, React and Next.js, AWS, and AI-assisted engineering practices. The engineer will develop secure production code, drive automation and AI adoption, and lead technical evaluations with vendors and internal teams.
What you will do
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
- Develops secure and 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for production systems.
- Advanced in one or more programming languages, with strong fundamentals in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Strong hands-on React + Next.js engineering experience. Strong UX/UI engineering capability
- Strong hands-on Java backend engineering, caching and data layer experience. Hands-on AWS experience
- 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
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with LLMs and agent frameworks, including prompt/tool orchestration patterns and evaluation strategies (quality, safety, regression testing, monitoring).
- Production experience with containers/Kubernetes, feature flags, and modern observability stacks.
- Performance tuning and resilience patterns such as caching strategies, async workflows, circuit breakers, timeouts/retries, and backpressure.
- Experience with progressive delivery and experimentation practices (feature flags, phased rollouts, A/B testing), and operating services against defined reliability targets (SLIs/SLOs).
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest, largest, and most diversified financial services institutions in the world. Operating globally through the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, the firm provides a comprehensive range of financial solutions including investment banking, consumer and commercial banking, transaction processing, and asset management. Serving millions of consumers and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients, the company combines deep market expertise with extensive technological investments.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 320000+ employees
- Founded
- 1799
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Global Chief Information Officer
CEO, Asset & Wealth Management
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