JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer
$157K–$215K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of applied experience.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads software design and development for secure, scalable banking products, including AI-enabled workflows and engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Designs, develops, tests, reviews, and troubleshoots production software; improves operational stability through automation.
- Leads feature design and technical direction, mentors engineers, and promotes reliability, performance, security, and compliance practices.
- Prototypes AI-enabled and agentic workflows and guides responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Extensive core Java (version 8 or higher) development experience with Spring or a similar framework; Test Driven Development using JUnit.
- Expert understanding of data structures, algorithms, and multi-threaded programming; experience with high-throughput, mission-critical platforms.
- Experience building reusable services and with enterprise data security and encryption; demonstrated leadership in approved AI-assisted software development tools and responsible AI practices.
Nice to have
- Cloud-native application development (e.g., AWS, GCP, private cloud).
- Ability to influence distributed-systems architecture and design.
Pay
USD 156,750.00-$215,000.00 base salary
Tools
Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Jenkins, JMeter
AI focus
Prototypes AI-enabled and agentic workflows, including tool-using agents, orchestration, evaluation, and guardrails; leads adoption of approved AI-assisted engineering tools and safe, compliant practices.
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