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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Financial Services · 239k people

Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Java

Posted 16 Oct

What’s this role about? The Lead Software Engineer will design, develop, and troubleshoot secure, high-quality production code while leading technical initiatives across multiple business functions. They will also drive the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and mentor team members to improve operational stability and code quality.

Chicago, Illinois
On-site
$138K – $185K
Full-time
5-10 years exp

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Company

About JPMorgan Chase & Co. With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. We serve millions of customers and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients daily, managing assets and investments, offering business advice and strategies, and providing innovative banking solutions and services. Social Media Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/JPMCSocialTerms JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Consumer & Community BankingCorporate and Investment BankAsset ManagementPrivate Bankingand Commercial Banking
JJPMorgan Chase & Co. logo
10,001+ employees
Financial Services
Public Company

Responsibilities

  • Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical
  • troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional
  • approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  • Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code
  • written by others
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness
  • and use of new and leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Qualification

TechnologySoftwareEngineeringFinance & AccountingManagement & Leadership

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+
  • years hands on Software Development Life Cycle experience
  • Experience implementing solutions using Java, SQL, UI frameworks, Design
  • patterns, microservices, Cloud native architecture, Angular/React, RESTful
  • APIs for enterprise-scale applications.
  • Experience with SQL performance tuning, JDBC, and ORM frameworks
  • Strong experience in various SQL and NoSQL datastores including Oracle,
  • Deep knowledge in caching technologies such as Elasticsearch, Reddis and so
  • on
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large
  • corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and
  • database querying languages
  • 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
  • Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application
  • Proficiency in unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito for ensuring
  • code quality.
  • Deep knowledge of messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka

Preferred

  • Exposure to AI systems such as Copilot, Claude
  • Exposure to AWS technology stack
  • 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. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are
  • a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial
  • banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
  • We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined
  • based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles
  • may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation,
  • paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of
  • individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and
  • programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These 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.
  • We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring
  • to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal
  • Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from
  • finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an
  • essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses,
  • clients, customers and employees up for success.

Benefits

  • Health care coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Backup childcare
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health support
  • Financial coaching
  • Discretionary incentive compensation
  • Equity

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