JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer - API Platform
$157K–$215K
Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of applied experience; no stated alternative.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts; experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and improvement of an API platform, delivering secure, scalable products and guiding engineering practices and AI-assisted development across the team.
What you'll do
- Builds, reviews, and debugs secure production code and improves engineering quality.
- Shapes technical and product decisions, leads stakeholder discussions, and serves as a subject matter expert.
- Promotes approved AI-assisted engineering practices, including validation standards and safe, compliant adoption.
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.
- Development experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST, microservices, databases, cloud-native technologies, Agile, DevOps, and TDD; recent AWS or other cloud-platform experience and Docker and Kubernetes experience.
- API platform experience and expertise in at least one end-to-end API area; experience leading approved AI-assisted development and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
Nice to have
- Networking and connectivity expertise, including cloud connectivity and latency diagnosis.
- API security expertise or experience designing scalable, resilient public-cloud systems.
Pay
USD 156,750.00-$215,000.00 base salary
Tools
Java, Spring Boot, REST, Microservices, RDBMS, NoSQL, AWS, Docker
AI focus
Leads adoption of approved AI-assisted coding, code review, refactoring, testing, troubleshooting, and incident analysis; establishes validation standards and promotes responsible, secure use.
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