Sr. Lead Software Engineer: Backend Engineering

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As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Digital Technology, Personalization & Insights team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job 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.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
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.
High-throughput, low-latency micro service development leveraging AWS services such EKS, ECS, Fargate, ELB, etc.
High throughput near real time stream processing with services such Kinesis, Flink, ECS, EKS, etc.
Caching systems such as Redis to lower database load
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 qualifications, capabilities, and skills