JPMorgan Chase
Lead Software Engineer
$157K–$215K
Jersey City, NJ +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ
New York, NY
Wilmington, DE - Experience
- 5+ years applied experience.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads software engineering for cybersecurity and technology controls, building secure platform components, data pipelines, and internal user interfaces while improving team delivery practices with authorized AI tools.
What you'll do
- Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and reviews secure production code and platform solutions.
- Drives adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices with standards for validating outputs and safe, secure use.
- Builds and evolves resilient, observable data platforms, pipelines, and micro-front-end interfaces; improves operational stability through automation.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced in one or more programming languages; proficient across the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Experience leading approved AI-assisted software development and coaching on responsible, secure use.
Nice to have
- Production experience operating distributed data platforms and designing data pipelines or models.
- Experience with hybrid environments, backend engineering, and modern user interfaces or micro-frontends.
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
Apache Flink, ClickHouse, Trino, dbt, Kestra, Apache Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Java
AI focus
Leads team use of authorized AI-assisted coding, code review/refactoring, test acceleration, troubleshooting, and incident/root-cause analysis, establishing validation standards and responsible data-handling practices.
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