
Financial Services · 239k people
Sr. Lead Software Engineer: Backend Engineering
Posted 8 Oct
What’s this role about? The role involves developing secure, high-quality production code while providing technical guidance to agile teams and vendors. You will drive the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and influence product design to ensure scalable and stable technical solutions.
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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.
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Responsibilities
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code
- written by others
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business
- and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application
- functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide
- frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and
- application of leading-edge technologies
- Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices
- across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational
- outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration,
- release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing
- measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated
- testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the
- SDLC/TLM toolchain.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle
- toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation
- capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
Qualification
Required
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+
- years applied experience
- Hands-on software development experience in an Object-Oriented programming
- language (such as Java, C++, Python)
- Requires depth of knowledge and experience in three of the four following
- areas, with developing knowledge in the others.
- 1. High-throughput, low-latency micro service development leveraging AWS
- services such EKS, ECS, Fargate, ELB, etc.
- 2. High throughput near real time stream processing with services such Kinesis,
- Flink, ECS, EKS, etc.
- 3. Caching systems such as Redis to lower database load
- 4. Large volume data processing using Ray, Spark and similar technologies
- Solid fundamentals and experience in containers (docker ecosystem), container
- orchestration systems [Kubernetes, ECS], DAG orchestration [Airflow, Kubeflow
- etc]
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies and knowledge of SDLC including
- CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized
- AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (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
- senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
Preferred
- Experience with recommendation and personalization systems
- 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.
- 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 Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a
- range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards,
- mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment
- processing. We’re proud to 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.
Benefits
- Health care coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Backup childcare
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health support
- Financial coaching
- Incentive compensation
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