Sr Principal Software Engineer
About the role
Join the CDAO AI/ML Data Platforms Team at JPMorganChase as a Senior Principal Software Engineer. Provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile teams to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your expertise to challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, lead strategic development, and remain at the forefront of industry trends and technological advances.
Responsibilities
- Advise and lead on the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio.
- Create novel code solutions and drive the development of new production code capabilities across teams and functions.
- Set strategy and operating standards for agentic AI-enabled engineering across a portfolio using enterprise-authorized tools to drive measurable improvements in delivery speed, reliability, and code quality (e.g., AI-orchestrated SDLC/TLM automation, release readiness gating, incident triage/root-cause acceleration, and large-scale refactoring/test modernization). Define guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams and functions.
- Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve value realized by automation at scale.
- Translate highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive innovation and enable strategic, well-informed decisions about technology advancements.
- Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields aligned with the latest product development methodologies.
- Create durable, reusable software frameworks leveraged across teams and functions.
- Influence across business, product, and technology teams while managing senior stakeholder relationships.
- Serve as the function's go-to subject matter expert.
- Build and operate 24x7, tier-1 online services.
- Champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 7+ years of applied experience.
- Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Rust, Java, Go, C++.
- Demonstrated experience designing and scaling agentic AI-enabled development patterns using enterprise-authorized tools, including establishing governance for human-in-the-loop validation, traceability/auditability, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations at scale, including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance. Ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, reuse, and measurable outcomes.
- Proven track record building and operating 24x7, tier-1 online services.
- Experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver value at scale.
- Expertise in applying new methods to solve complex technology problems across various technical disciplines.
- Extensive practical cloud-native experience.
- Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with open-source projects in the OLAP/data stack: Apache DataFusion, DuckDB, Apache Arrow Flight SQL.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including base salary, commission-based pay, and discretionary incentive compensation (cash and/or forfeitable equity).
- Comprehensive health care coverage.
- On-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Backup childcare.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Mental health support.
- Financial coaching.
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. With a history spanning over 200 years, we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management.
About The Team
Our Corporate Functions teams cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. These teams ensure we set our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.