JPMorgan Chase
AI Lead Software Engineer
$157K–$215K
Jersey City, NJ +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years of applied experience.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads an engineering team building secure, scalable software and AI-enabled platforms, including generative AI applications and workflows, for Corporate Technology.
What you'll do
- Lead software design and delivery, set architecture and technical direction, and build secure production-grade services.
- Mentor engineers and improve release reliability through CI/CD automation, testing, and engineering practices.
- Develop data-intensive services and AI applications, including retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows, with evaluation and guardrails.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering scalable, secure, resilient distributed systems in production.
- Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with working knowledge of SQL and modern user interface frameworks such as React.
- Experience with public cloud, Docker and Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, API design and integration, and responsible use of approved AI-assisted development tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Oracle or MongoDB, and generative AI frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex.
- Experience creating reusable agent skills or patterns, or working with Databricks and Kubernetes-based platforms.
Pay
USD 156,750.00-$215,000.00 base salary (Jersey City, NJ); USD 156,750.00-$215,000.00 base salary (New York, NY)
Tools
Java, Scala, Spring Boot, SQL, React, Amazon Web Services, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build AI-enabled applications using retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows; lead responsible adoption of approved AI-assisted engineering tools, with validation, evaluation, and guardrails.
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