Senior Java Lead Software Engineer

Overview

In this role you drive secure, scalable software delivery within an agile Corporate Technology team at JPMorganChase. You provide technical guidance, develop high-quality production code, and advance AI-assisted development practices across teams to improve quality, speed, and operational outcomes. You influence product design and act as a subject matter expert while championing firmwide SDLC frameworks and secure engineering standards. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role with a strong emphasis on responsible AI and cloud-native delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others’ code
• Drive adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices across teams with measurable validation standards
• Leverage SDLC tools, including AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve automation at scale
• Influence product design and technical operations decisions
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in focus areas
• Contribute to the engineering community by promoting firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices

Key requirements

• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operational stability
• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Advanced in one or more programming languages
• Experience leading AI-assisted software development tools adoption and setting team expectations for AI output validation
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows and security expectations
• Ability to tackle design problems independently
• Practical cloud-native experience
• Proficiency in Scala, Java, Python; experience with Apache Spark
• Familiarity with Git, Jira and Agile
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, debugging, communication, and collaboration skills

• strong communication and interpersonal skills
• problem-solving and analytical thinking
• ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Scala
• Java
• Python

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