Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS & AI Platform Services
About The Position
Join JPMorganChase's Machine Learning Center of Excellence — where cutting-edge engineering meets real-world impact at global scale. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Platforms and Machine Learning Center of Excellence team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary community of experts focused exclusively on machine learning, working with cutting-edge techniques in disciplines such as deep learning and reinforcement learning.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Advanced proficiency in Python programming, object-oriented design, and modular software architecture
- Experience building and operating large-scale, high-performance cloud-native services within AWS environments
- Hands-on experience with AWS technologies including EKS, ECS, MSK (Kafka), SQS, and S3
- Strong experience implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Expertise in designing, deploying, and supporting distributed systems in production environments
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, and Splunk
- Strong understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and scalable system design patterns
- Experience implementing automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and secure software engineering practices
- Demonstrated experience utilizing approved AI-assisted software development tools for coding, code review, testing acceleration, troubleshooting, and operational support
- Strong understanding of responsible AI usage, application security, resiliency requirements, compliance standards, and mentoring engineers on engineering best practices
Nice To Haves
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems reliability patterns, including resiliency engineering, self-healing architectures, backpressure management, and idempotency
- Experience optimizing real-time and event-driven architectures at scale, particularly with Kafka-based messaging systems
- Experience implementing end-to-end observability, automated operational runbooks, and proactive monitoring frameworks
- Familiarity with CI/CD best practices, canary deployments, blue/green deployment strategies, and release automation within cloud environments
- Familiarity with Generative AI and Large Language Model technologies and experience building engineering solutions that leverage AI/LLM platforms
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade Python services and APIs that power high-impact machine learning platforms at enterprise scale
- Architect and implement high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments to support critical business workloads
- Build and manage scalable cloud-native applications leveraging AWS technologies including Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Simple Queue Service (SQS), and S3
- Develop reusable service frameworks, shared libraries, and modular application components that accelerate engineering delivery across teams
- Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and CloudFormation to enable repeatable, auditable, and scalable deployments
- Create and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions utilizing platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, and Splunk to ensure operational excellence
- Deploy and support applications in production environments while ensuring adherence to service-level objectives and service-level agreements
- Implement secure-by-design engineering practices, automated testing, and deployment strategies including blue/green and canary releases
- Review code, provide architectural guidance, and mentor engineers on software engineering best practices to elevate team capability
- Collaborate with product managers, platform engineering teams, and site reliability engineers to deliver scalable, business-aligned solutions
- Drive adoption of enterprise-approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, operational excellence, troubleshooting, and delivery efficiency
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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