JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer - Agentic AI, Java/Python
$157K–$215K
Jersey City, NJ · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads engineering of agentic AI and data analytics solutions for Payments Technology, building secure agent systems and full-stack applications.
What you'll do
- Build and operate agentic solutions on NEO, including execution, integrations, memory, retrieval, and evaluations.
- Develop and maintain production applications, write and review code, and improve operational stability and security.
- Lead responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, establish validation standards, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability; strong Python required.
- Production React (Next.js) web application experience, including real-time UI and component/design systems.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic systems, plus practical cloud-native experience with production Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Exposure to LLMs, RAG, vector databases, embedding-based retrieval, or Graph RAG.
- Experience with agent protocols or multi-agent orchestration, sandboxed code execution, agent memory, evaluations, Terraform, or Docker.
Pay
$156,750.00-$215,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Python, React, Next.js, Typescript, Salt Design System, SSE/WebSocket, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI focus
Builds agentic AI systems on NEO, including LLM-powered agents, integrations, memory, retrieval, evaluations, and guardrails; leads responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
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