Lead Software Engineer

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Community and Consumer 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 will conduct critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, partnering continuously with stakeholders to stay focused on common goals.
• Work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions for global customers.
• Develop using Test Driven Development and work in a Continuous Integration environment on a shared codebase.
• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine approaches.
• 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 operational stability.
• Take the lead on feature design and development, identifying new features and helping form program strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring while encouraging team participation in design and development.
• Prototype and deliver AI-enabled/agentic workflows (e.g., tool-using agents, orchestration patterns, evaluation, and guardrails) and translate stakeholder needs into technical designs.
• Mentor engineers and partner with application teams to drive best practices across reliability, performance, risk, cybersecurity, and legal/compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Extensive core Java (version 8 or higher) development experience with Spring or a similar framework.
• Test Driven Development using JUnit.
• Expert understanding of data structures, algorithms, and multi-threaded programming.
• Experience working on multi-threaded, high-throughput, mission-critical, high-performance platforms.
• Experience designing and building reusable services.
• Experience with data security and encryption in an enterprise setting.
• Experience with Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes, PowerMock, JMeter, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Sonar, Fortify, Black Duck, Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native application development (e.g., AWS, GCP, private cloud).
• Ability to influence architecture and design across distributed systems.
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals.

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity. 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.

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits, and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves Chase customers through personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans, and payment processing. We lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions—all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.