Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python/Java/Spring/AWS

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Plano, TX

About The Position

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Consumer & Community Banking, Operations Technology, you will work as an integral member of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will use deep technical expertise and problem-solving methods to tackle challenges across technologies and applications and drive significant business impact. The role includes developing and supporting production software, leading effective and responsible use of approved AI-assisted engineering tools, improving automation and operational stability, and guiding technology evaluation and adoption across software engineering teams.

Requirements

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and at least 5 years of applied experience.
Experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools for activities such as coding, code review, test acceleration, or troubleshooting, and setting expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption.
Advanced skills in one or more programming languages: Python, J2EE, or Core Java, including Java 17 features and concepts such as annotations, enums, collections, streams, multithreading, concurrency, regular expressions, and functions.
Experience with Spring Framework for building RESTful web services, MVC applications, and Spring Boot applications.
Strong AWS experience architecting, deploying, and operating cloud-native services, including services such as IAM, VPC, ECS, EKS, SQS, S3, RDS, ALB/NLB, Secrets Manager, and ElastiCache.
Experience with build and integration tools, including JIRA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, GitHub, and BitBucket.
Experience developing using Agile methodology and knowledge of web security, including OAuth2/ADFS, Kerberos, cross-site scripting, and HTTP injection.
Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies and practices such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.

Nice To Haves

In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its IT systems.
Practical cloud-native experience.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

Responsibilities

Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, using approaches beyond routine or conventional methods to build solutions and break down technical problems.
Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, establishing validation standards for secure coding, peer review, and automated testing and promoting reuse of effective patterns.
Apply Software Development Life Cycle toolchain capabilities, including approved AI-assisted development and automation tools, to improve the value realized by automation.
Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve software and systems operational stability.
Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability to existing systems and information architecture.
Lead software engineering communities of practice to increase awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package, including base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in the form of 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.

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