Lead Software Engineer - Terraform, Python, Kubernetes
JPMorgan Chase · Posted Oct 30
Global banking, investment, credit card, mortgage, and asset management services
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About the role
The Commercial & Investment Bank's Securities Services Technology team builds and delivers technology products for securities services in a secure, stable, and scalable way. This lead software engineering role focuses on Python and AWS application development, architecture and design, and integration of AI/ML solutions into domain-specific operations processing systems. It also involves leading code reviews and agile planning, managing a small engineering team, and collaborating with SRE and production monitoring teams.
What you will do
- Develops and maintain high-quality, secure applications using Python and AWS
- Creates architecture and design deliverables, lead design and architecture reviews, own end-to-end delivery. Integrates AIML solutions into complex, domain specific operations processing systems
- Leads code reviews, design discussions, and agile planning sessions. Collaborates with SRE and production monitoring teams to ensure system reliability and performance
- Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and technology events
- Embraces continuous learning, creative problem solving, and a can-do attitude
- Leads evaluation and selection of open source and internal software to determine best fit
- Partners with existing systems teams on cross‑app design; align interfaces and ship end‑to‑end solutions
- Manages small team of engineers whilst remaining hands on, setting engineering standards
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Proven hands-on experience in Python application development
- Proven hands-on experience developing, debugging and maintaining production applications
- Solid understanding of software development best practices, including version control, testing, and CI/CD
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey design choices and communicate effectively with stakeholders
- Experience working on AIML systems and/or prior experience collaborating with data scientists
- Track record of designing, building, and delivering maintainable, extensible applications into production environments
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerized application development
- Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and AWS services such as S3, EKS, SageMaker, and Bedrock
- Practical experience with Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Kafka, MLOps and LLMs
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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