Lead Software Engineer

Are you ready to transform the future of banking? Join our digital bank, Chase, as a Lead Software Engineer and be part of a team that's revolutionizing mobile banking with seamless journeys that our customers love. At JPMorgan Chase, we're building the bank of the future from scratch, offering you the opportunity to make a real impact. Our Developer Experience team is dedicated to providing an exceptional developer experience, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. Embrace the chance to grow your career in a diverse and inclusive environment where your unique perspective is valued.

Responsibilities

• Self-motivated who can drive epics individually with minimum support.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance the developer experience, providing tools and infrastructure that support agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches.
• Create secure and high-quality production code to deploy infrastructure.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets for continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data, using insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Add to the teams' culture, diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
• Understanding distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages (Python or other) and database querying languages.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Understanding Agile methodologies, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, etc.).
• Experience with Public Cloud services in Production (we use AWS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or other).
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Experience in architecting, supporting, and implementing advanced, strategic CICD migrations.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end or back-end technologies.
• Debugging expertise in Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Infrastructure Tools, preferably Terraform, and AWS services understanding.
• Experience with any GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Terraform Cloud, Slack, Grafana, SonarQube is considered a plus.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. 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 opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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.