JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer
$138K–$185K
Chicago, IL · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
About the job
Designs and develops Python-based systems, applying SRE practices to improve reliability, security, scalability, and performance.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain production systems, architecture artifacts, and secure, high-quality code.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, automated recovery, SLIs/SLOs, chaos experiments, and performance testing.
- Respond to incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and use data to identify system improvements.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment; experience with AI, the SDLC, and MongoDB.
- Knowledge of AWS, CI/CD, application resiliency, security, and SRE concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Experience with incident response, chaos engineering, system health metrics, and performance testing tools such as JMeter.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies.
- Exposure to cloud technologies.
Pay
USD $137,750.00-$185,000.00 base salary
Tools
Python, AWS, MongoDB, JMeter, CI/CD
AI focus
Requires experience with AI; no specific AI development duties are described.
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